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Privately, however, the factions around the two leaders do not see exactly eye to eye. Zhao envisions the 11,200-mile coast as a powerful economic engine to which the backward interior provinces can eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would...
This contretemps calls for a bit of explaining, and Garcia Marquez flashes backward to tell all. A half-century of solitude earlier, Florentino enjoys a passionate, three-year romance with the schoolgirl Fermina, conducted entirely through the exchange of clandestine letters. His swooning preoccupation and physical distress arouse concern: "His mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera." But it is love, all right, and Florentino's symptoms grow worse when Fermina abruptly tosses him aside and later weds Dr. Urbino, the scion of an illustrious though fading...
...small step away from immortality, Then, one giant leap backward into obscurity...
...supposed to be a reverse 2 and 1/2 somersault, a dive where you take off from a forward position and rotate backward towards the board, finally entering a couple of revolutions later. Greene never got there...
...there were young beauties too, including Lucy Ferry, wife of Rock Star Bryan Ferry, who was swanning around in her Louise Brooks bob, sporting a brown broad-brimmed straw hat topped by, yes, a huge pink branch. Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu. She had it on backward, but it was still charming. Acting out their dress-up fantasies, or simply getting to the changing cabins, they all seemed to trip over a dark fellow lying on the rug intently watching a video. He laughed now and then and clapped his hands at the good parts, utterly oblivious...