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...Soong Dynasty is a raffish account of how the East was conquered, it is no less a tale of how the West was won. The Soongs, Seagrave contends, knew exactly how to beguile America, one day with images of the mysterious East, the next with snapshots of God-fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop...
...good as the attack looked, the brightest spot in this 11-10 defeat may still have been the play of Cahow. A hockey player by trade, Cahow was moonlighting as a lacrosse goalie for Saturday’s game on account of injury and illness suffered by the two goalies on the roster...
...could cost the German government as much as j30 billion. That's a whopping 1.5% of Germany's gross domestic product, an amount that Berlin can ill afford at a time of squeezed budgets. At the Luxembourg hearing, the German government argued that the court should take into account the potentially huge budgetary repercussions. But Poiares Maduro explicitly...
Nobody ultimately can account for the enormous disparity between the enrollment in dance courses and the expansion of participation in dance groups all around campus. Nevertheless, the overall growth of participation in dance speaks volumes about the need for this community to have its voice heard. That the administration has at last picked up the other line to hear the desperate cries of space-hungry performers is a hopeful sign; I can only hope that now we can keep them on the phone...
...book reads more like a series of interviews surrounding a common theme—the making of Hitchcock’s movies—than an account of the man’s life. Hitchcock’s personal life is only mentioned at its edges—before he began directing films and after he finished. Instead, Chandler ascribes Hitchcock’s theory that he was his movies, and responds accordingly...