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...result, Toronto has been added to the WHO's travel advisory bulletin. In Beijing, where 750 cases have been confirmed, anxious residents are storming supermarkets to stock up on food and water, and lining up at train stations loaded down with luggage, hoping to escape to more rural areas less affected by the disease...
...YING QUARTET. Chosen as the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2001-3, the quartet will play a diverse set of works by Brahms, Barber, Rorem and Yi. Three brothers and a sister, they began playing chamber music in the rural town of Jesup, Iowa in 1992, and since then have won the Naumberg Chamber Music Award and with it international fame. Friday, April 11 at 8 p. m. Free and open to the public with passes available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Tickets expire at 7:45 p.m. Limit two per person. For tickets...
Mathews also claims in Harvard Schmarvard that low-income students, many of whom are first generation college students from inner-city or rural schools, have a “definite advantage” in the applications process. But while suburban kids need to “chill out” about the process, he writes, students from low-income backgrounds should become “more anxious,” taking such measures as beginning standardized testing before senior year...
...book comprises two main narratives: that of Bizot's imprisonment in Anlong Veng in 1970, when the Khmer Rouge were still a rural guerrilla movement, and that of his return to Phnom Penh in 1975, when he showed up at the French embassy at the exact moment the Khmer Rouge arrived. As the only person there fluent in both French and Khmer, he served as the principal liaison between the French and the new regime, a job that gave him a first-hand view of the enforced evacuation of the city. One of his principal duties was to help...
...best of the stories, "Giant Strawberry Funland," features Abel, a high-school loser and would-be rebel stuck in a strict, conventional rural town. While his crude older brother tries to save the family's strawberry farm by turning it into a theme park, Abel sneaks away and reminisces about his frustrated relationship with a cute alty-girl who moved away. With no central gimmick to distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly...