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Shanghai Daily: 'Crazy English' guru a bit crazed

Li Yang (李阳) of the Shanghai-based Crazy English movement has been getting a lot of bad press lately, and Shanghai Daily's Wang Yanlin is the latest to chime in, with a hard-hitting piece slamming the self-styled English guru who believes that getting... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Thu, Oct 11 2007

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