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...Olinto has been working closely with Harvard student organizations to create these promotions. B. Good placed ads in the HSA’s Unofficial Guide, and teamed up with The Harvard Voice for a free shake giveaway. Even the late-night opening was in part the brainchild of Bobby Yu ’10 and Tony Wang ’10, both HSA managers and B. Good enthusiasts. “I see tons of Harvard people there all the time,” Wang says. “They’re very generous with their food...
...eager to learn about how the recent financial crisis would affect their own career planning. “Especially with the economy the way it is right now, I just wanted to see what options are still out there and what the restrictions are,” said Ruizhi Yu, a sophomore at Princeton. Women in Business President Seema Amble ’09 said the organization has allowed her to learn from many mentors, both older students and experienced businesswomen. “They share their stories and I get a better sense of what exactly I want...
...Last August Jimmy - real name Kyaw Min Yu - was arrested along with other members of the so-called 88 Generation Students for staging street protests against government price hikes. These protests inspired the mass demonstrations led by Burma's monks, which captured the world's imagination a month later. Jimmy is still in jail. His wife Nilar Thein, another die-hard democrat, is in hiding. Their infant daughter has effectively been orphaned by the regime...
...While some filmmakers are lucky enough to secure funding from elsewhere - Yu Lik-wai's Venice competition entry Plastic City has partners in Hong Kong, Brazil, Japan, France and China - the choice facing most directors is stark. "You either do very low-budget films for the local market, or some side markets like Southeast Asia, or you do really huge, huge-budget films as a co-production with China," says Lau. Medium-sized productions are few, meaning that up-and-coming directors are finding it hard to make the transition to mainstream features. Occasionally, established filmmakers will nurture prot...
...spent the past seven years transforming itself. The city added roughly 85 miles (about 140 km) of subway and rail lines and a huge airport terminal. Forty million pots of flowers and 22 million trees were planted. As many as 1.5 million people were forcibly relocated. Some, like the Yu family, who ran a snack shop north of the Forbidden City, hung on till the very end, wrapping their structure in flags and photos of Chinese leaders in hopes it might stop the wrecking ball. It didn't. Less than 48 hours after the store was demolished to make...