Word: yi
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...North Korea, which has calculatedly tried to frighten the international community into appeasing it with aid. But the tactic may have backfired. When six-way talks resumed the next day, Kelly recounted to his startled tablemates what he'd been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly ruffled, Kim was obliged to repeat his threats. China, Russia, South Korea and Japan "heard what was said and saw how this business is handled" by the North, says the American diplomat. As a result, the remaining rivulets of goodwill that Pyongyang had at the bargaining table looked...
...Conditions inside C.-and-R. centers are so appalling, even by the grim standards of China's penal institutions, that they won't stay secret forever. Tong Yi, a New York City-based lawyer and human-rights activist who did time in both a re-education labor camp in her native Wuhan and in Beijing's main C.-and-R. center before being granted political asylum in the U.S., describes hellish scenes of healthy children and adults and the mentally ill locked up together. "Life in the center was chaotic and filthy," she recalls. "There was no drinking water, just...
...next week at the NCAA Regionals, both Stinetorf and Austin qualified for NCAAs with top-four finishes. Stinetorf and Austin once again faced each other in head-to-head competition with Stinetorf reversing the tables and coming out on top this time. Blase and Yi both turned in impressive 11th-place performances but failed to qualify for NCAAs...
Austin, Stinetorf and Yi were all named first-team All-Ivy selections...
...posts a 15-game winning streak during which it goes undefeated in NFC competition at 10-0. Foil squad of Austin, Blase and Stinetorf go 86-4 in NFC with Stinetorf posting a perfect 30-0 mark. Austin and Stinetorf finish second and third, respectively, at IFAs, while Eunice Yi takes bronze in saber...