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...Harvard as both boats finished 12th in their division.“We had some very sporadic races. We either did pretty well or very badly,” sophomore crew Quincy Bock said. Skipper Garrity helmed the A-division boat, assisted by crews Bock and junior Winston Yan. Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt competed in the B division.The A boat’s six top-ten finishes were offset by two 17th-place races, while the B boat was unable to recover from a disqualification in the fifth race of the regatta.Roger Williams emerged victorious...
...Yan Jun Much of the Chinese capital's avant-garde scene has been shaped by a musician and promoter from provincial Lanzhou...
...know instruments and i'm not good with computers," says Yan Jun. It's not a very promising introduction, but in fact Yan, who moved to Beijing from Lanzhou city in Gansu province nine years ago, makes compelling, hypnotic music. Think of spacey sound effects, found sounds (like recordings made in the middle of a field) and the occasional punctuation of delicate piano notes...
...Yan is very much the godfather of the Beijing avant-garde. Besides performing, he runs the seminal labels Kwanyin Records and Subjam, and is an influential critic and promoter - his weekly experimental nights attract a dedicated following and showcase left-field international and local artists of consistently high quality. Not that Yan is looking for attention. "Obviously I'd like to be able to share my music," he says. "But most important is that I enjoy it myself. If more people listen to me, great. If not, that's O.K., too." Perhaps it's enough that he's having...
...being battered by a product safety scandal - this time chemical-tainted milk - China will see a successful space mission as a welcome fall extension of its Summer Olympic glory. "When combined with a successful Olympics, it becomes very difficult for China to be [seen] as a developing country," says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "With the huge amount of money spent and the high-tech capacity, the two things will make the world believe that China is a developed country, not a developing country...