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Jane Zhu loves the full-bodied bordeaux at PuJ's bar in Shanghai's glitziest hotel. She also loves the cigars, which are, she concedes, nothing but excessive phallic symbols to be smoked with high-roller abandon. But what Zhu likes best are the sexy, well-honed bodies out on the disco floor. "The pickings are best right here," Zhu says, exhaling puffs of Montecristo smoke. "Which one shall I take home tonight...
...course, a conservative administration. But I suspect that in starting to abandon the middle and seeming to move breezily and callously right on certain issues (the environment comes to mind, and pro-business policies that look to some like simple, blatant payoffs), Bush, who is not Ronald Reagan, may be misjudging American tolerances and setting himself up for more trouble than his ideology knows how to handle. I hate to bring this up, but the congressional elections of 2002 are not that far away. An excess of ideology gives Americans the creeps, especially when they suspect it is a smokescreen...
...wishes to remain true to his campaign promises to restore civility and bipartisanship to Washington, Bush should abandon the partisan and discriminatory lawyer...
...Wednesday, Israel's outgoing prime minister, Ehud Barak, decided - once again - to retreat from political life. Barak, who first announced his intentions to abandon leadership of the Labor party on February 6, when he lost a landslide election to Ariel Sharon, had subsequently reconsidered when he was offered the job of minister of defense in a unity government under Sharon. In the end, he withdrew, leaving the defense post open to fellow Labor leader Shimon Peres...
...defense we had been used to all season, Harvard was unable to slow the Bears attack. Brown guard Omari Ware exploded for seven straight points and the Bears jumped out to a quick 12-2 lead. Adding to Harvard's early sieve-like defense, the Crimson fouled with reckless abandon...