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...Stanford University in 1992 and went on to Yale to receive her Ph.D. in 2000. For the following two years, she served as a postdoctoral faculty fellow at Syracuse University. She took a post as an assistant professor at Harvard in 2002. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Kuomintang party have criticized Ma this week for the government's slow response to Morakot, particularly as the public has voiced the need for more effective disaster relief after major typhoons and earthquakes in recent years. "We should have a disaster relief agency that coordinates our resources," said Chiu Yi, a prominent lawmaker, Monday. "We've been talking about this for the past ten years...
...steamy saturday afternoon just outside Shanghai, Zhang Yi is in a blessedly cool General Motors showroom, kicking the tires of the company's newer models. He's not there to beat the heat. He drives a small Volkswagen now and wants to upgrade. A middle manager at a state-owned steel company, Zhang has no worries about his job or China's economy. "Things are still pretty good," he says. "I have no problem now affording one of these," nodding toward the array of gleaming new Buicks nearby. (Read "China's Booming Car Market Shifts into Reverse...
...something to do with it." This annoys a lot of critics, male and female, as well as some viewers, but Apatow insists the female roles in his movies are just as real as the male ones. He's producing films written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Charlyne Yi; if those movies have lots of women calling one another lesbians and making self-deprecating vagina jokes, then Apatow can check off one more box on his self-improvement list...
...players would prefer to watch the high-octane antics of the NBA rather than the second-rate efforts of their national league, where poor coaching and antiquated playbooks have stunted the game. It doesn't help, either, that China's best players, like Yao and the New Jersey Nets' Yi Jianlian, have fled the CBA for the klieg lights of the North American league. All in all, the CBA lost nearly $17 million last season, and the Shanghai club is among one of the most financially troubled teams in the league. (See pictures of street basketball in China...