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...mind, at least, the life of Yan Xuan ’05 has been a study in contradictions. On one hand, he is the son of Chinese immigrants and a self-described “nerd.” On the other hand, Xuan grew up in that bastion of multiculturalism, the American South (Durham, North Carolina to be exact...
...analog synthesizers and electronic music. He’s even carving time out of his premed course load to take a year-long electronic music class. A close friend of Xuan’s, Tim H. Wong ’05, remarks that “the reason Yan is interesting is that he’s got all these under-the-radar talents...
Under-the-radar to the world, perhaps, but not to friends. “Yan surely has a tongue-in-cheek ironic self-promotion about him,” Wong says. The snowshoe that hangs on his wall is a testament to his love of the absurd. “I don’t snowshoe,” he says. “It’s meant to be ironic...
...rest of the country mainly as a source of prized decorative porcelain produced during the graceful Song dynasty eight centuries ago. Last week, the city's place in the nation's consciousness acquired a stain that may take years to fade. At midnight, a 21-year-old named Yan Yanming reportedly entered the dormitory of Ruzhou's No. 2 High School and slipped into the rooms where male students slept. Yan slashed some students' throats, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Others he stabbed in the heart. Eight died without rising. Four survived?hours later, witnesses saw the smears...
...Nair, Max C. Nicholas, Antonio L. Perez, Shira R. A. Pinnas, Alexander J. Post, Karl C. Procaccini, Krishna A. Rao, Michael B. Schnall-Levin, Julia A. Stephens, Aditya V. Sunderam, Manik V. Suri, Vaughn Y. H. Tan, Nadim N. Vasanji, Ajit Vyas, Daniel B. Weissman, R. Christian Wyatt, Yan Xuan, Wen-Chi A. Yuan, Minhua Zhang and Brian F. Zingale...