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...Chen Yifei knew that others could attract money and investment to China. What he wanted to do was far greater: bring beauty back to his homeland. The painter turned style entrepreneur, who died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped...
Running into danger is part of the role sought by the interdenominational Witness for Peace. The group was founded with a twin purpose: 1) to place U.S. protesters in the line of fire in Nicaragua, in the belief that their presence will reduce hostilities, and 2) to attract American citizens to Nicaragua in order, as a Witness spokesman puts it, "to permit them to learn about the consequences of U.S. foreign policy on Nicaragua." The Witnesses claim to be apolitical, but they are considered by Washington to be definitely favorable to the Sandinistas and hostile to the insurgent contras. Since...
...Harvard Beer Society, the sorry state of the beer selection at Loker Pub Nights has watered down my enthusiasm. People go to bars because of the variety and quality of the drinks. And seeing as Pub Nights only serve beer, and not mixed drinks, better beer will attract more students...
...Susan Keller, Harvard’s Director of Residential Real Estate, told students that construction normally starts at 7 a.m., and if they delayed the start they wouldn’t be able to attract work crews...
...There are certainly extreme cases of file sharing, and we are filing suits...against the most egregious users of Internet2,” Engebretsen said. She said the RIAA hopes that these lawsuits will “attract the attention” of other file-sharing users and encourage them to cease their illegal behavior...