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Adams House residents Steve Teng ’10 and Jade D. Guedes first met at the Adams Culinary Club and both were experienced cooks. They entered the competition with “no plan whatsoever,” according to Teng...
...Jade R. Randle ’11 and Alan A. Ibrahim ’11 had reached the helicopter and emerged victorious, the lone survivors from the showdown, preserving hope for humans to come...
There is another factor at work here. Yushu sits at what was the edge of the old Chinese empire, and to this day its predominant population is not Han, the ethnic group that rules the new China, but Tibetan. Indeed, the name Yushu, or "Jade Tree," is not what the locals use, beautiful as it is. Yushu is Mandarin, the language of the bureaucrats of Beijing. The town uses Jyekundo, which is Tibetan - the language of the exiled Dalai Lama, a bête noire of the Chinese government. Dominating a large square in Yushu was a spectacular statue...
...China is not the Soviet Union. There's no Jade Curtain falling over Asia. And if Moscow sought security through expansion, China's leaders will take another path. Uneasy about collision and aware of their weakness, they are likely instead to manipulate and eventually reshape the international system. Such an indirect, slow route suits both the Chinese temperament and the nation's obsession with stability. It means trying to reshape the landscape around an opponent instead of colliding with it directly, to win battles before you need fight them. In terms of military strategy, this means that China will attempt...
...think the Bowman-Hysen campaign did a very good job of contacting UC representatives very early on,” said UC member and Bowman-Hysen supporter Jade A. Clark ’11, when asked about internal Council support. “They do have an advantage in that they have a lot of the freshmen...