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...Sept. 6 Beijing Paralympics opening ceremony came when Hou Bin, a one-legged track athlete, spent five minutes pulling himself and his wheelchair 20m in the air by rope and pulley to light the Olympic cauldron. But to Song Yanan the highlight was the moment when Ping Yali, who as a blind long jumper became China's first Paralympic champion in 1984, carried the flame with the aid of a guide dog named Lucky. "I couldn't take my eyes off them," says Song. "I was really excited, and also a little nervous. There were so many people...
Alfred E. Vellucci, Cambridge's favorite City Councillor, yesterday unveiled documents that prove irrefutabaly Yale was founded by an Italian, Elio Yali...
Speaking to an assemblage of editors and distinguished guests at the offices of the Yale Daily News, Vellucci gave a dramatic rendition of a registered special delivery missive from Terracina, Italy. The official epistle stated that Yali, son of Angelo and Mafalda Yali of Terrachina, was born in East Boston. Yali made valuable gifts of books and money to what was then the Collegiate School in Saybrook, Conn. When the school was moved to Nuovo Rifugio, (New Haven) it was named for Yali...
...main streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...
...sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega on the high...