In the last hour we did sbek with the governor. We spoke with a local mayor. It all comes as fares are potentially on their way up. We asked them if thats fair. Problems persist for the Commuter Rail an the mbta. Transportation second pollack apologizing after an Early Morning Commuter Rail derailment between andover and lawrence. We are sorry todays cold snap disrupted commutes. Passengers told to board buses between stops but when they got off no trains were waiting so they tell us they waited over an hour in the cold. This has been over an hour since i left bradford. Hour and 20 minutes when i should have been picked up and here it is, im Still Standing here in the freezing cold. Its unclear so far what caused the track to break along the haverhill line but pollack believes the cold snap is at least to blame for other broken the red line has been major focus of the ts 83 million winter resiliency plan as the t considers fare hikes. Is it fair to ask people to pay more when there are
A convergence of two anniversaries. The new yorker is celebrating its 90th this year. It was one of the First Western media to have access to china after the revolution . 1949. And of our five distinguished guest panelists tonight, one who is not a guest, our own Orville Schell, they have collectively over 100 years of observation and writing on china. And i think you will all find this very enlightening and no doubt entertaining. This includes of course our own Orville Schell whose asia societies center on u. S. China relations, arthur ross director and the founder districter. Were pleased to have janet ross here with us tonight. Hello, janet. Ive learned that orvilles first contribution to if new yorker was in the 70s. Almost whole issues on china solely devoted, quite a thing in the 70s. Ive also learned that orville with us so delighted with his first paycheck that he went and bought a tractor for his ranch in california and this was following the directive in the cultural to head
I think the question you posed maybe earlier to jiayang as what does it mane to read western reporting as a native chinese is an interesting one. For me i remember when i was able to read the the New York Times, when i read reports on china, it felt like seeing an xray of china. And what i mean by that is the bones all seemed to be in the right place, but what i had in my head with the flesh and the veins, all of that seemed it seemed all very accurate. I felt like western reporters must have done a conscientious job. This was in the early mid90s but that sense of i want macy that i felt to the country and in myself i think the warring allegiances of, i mean, keep in mind i spent first and second grade in china and was exceptionally slow as an english learner. So was very much, you know still felt very much nobody could truly with a childs sense of stubbornness, nobody can understand china the way i do. And i spent, you know, the past, i think, two decades trying to reconcile that very
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