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...bastion is formidable. Isolated by a bordering ring of mountains and agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
...Train" Peters coasted to an easy 11-2 victory over defending G.B.L. champs, Northeastern yesterday at Kent St. Field. The lanky flamethrower scattered seven hits, keeping the perenially tough Huskies off the scoreboard until the 8th...
...words of 8th century Chinese Poet Li T'ai-Po had special poignance for Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom...
...rare stay of execution for all of the state's 51 condemned prisoners until at least May 31. On that date, a hearing will be held on an American Civil Liberties Union petition charging that death by electrocution constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the 8th and 14th amendments...
...goods-along with most of the problems of identity and adaptation found in today's Japanese society. Under the chill gaze of sacred Mount Fuji, a man-made morass of concrete, steel and glass belches smoke and grime in a manner quite contradictory to the verses of the 8th century poet Akahito Yamabe, who wrote...