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...website in January in conjunction with Sina, China's leading portal; in late March, the club unveiled another aimed at South Korea. The London team is also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor...
...Donahue, officers even look at whether a student sought a waiver from the $65 application fee. But detailed information on family finances remains off-limits. So Harvard isn’t actually “need blind;” it’s “need vision-impaired...
...Japan to found the firm Maki and Associates in Tokyo. In his lecture, titled “On Scenery,” Maki displayed slides of his buildings and explained in technical terms how his designs interacted with the surrounding scenery, bringing out the basic principles that underlie his vision of architectural design. Maki said that a “hide-and-seek” sensibility is one of the universal values that he believes spans across local cultures. “Human beings inherited DNA from animals,” Maki said. “The most important thing...
...nothing like defeat to concentrate the mind of a politician,” Kerry said. Kerry and Heinz Kerry spoke at the event, organized by the Harvard Book Store, to promote their new book, “This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Enviromentalists and their Vision for the Future.” “We have to embarrass people being dumb and greedy,” Heinz Kerry said. Kerry said he and Heinz Kerry chose the title of their book because U.S. policy in the next 10 years will have a decisive impact...
...Reading the resulting piece - which Life published in its May 13, 1957, issue (one that is not online, unfortunately) - is hilarious today. Wasson describes his hallucinations at great length, in reverent terms: "The visions were not blurred or uncertain. They were sharply focused. I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows...