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...last representatives of China's prerevolutionary glamour sits in a ramshackle courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
...uninitiated, the traditional Chinese cheongsam is a tightly fitted garment, with side slits that go as high as the wearer dares?from modest notches above the knee to attention-grabbing openings as high as the upper thigh. Precision tailoring is vital, and that's why Cao's clients flock to him from as far afield as Hong Kong and Taiwan. "I have made thousands of cheongsam," he says. "How could I remember how many?" Still, he has kept up with the trends. "Women used to be more modest," shrugs Cao. "Now they want everything tighter, shorter and more colorful." Prices...
...match was sealed by Mukundun’s thumping of the Big Red’s Erika Takeuchi in the No. 3 singles match—6-2, 6-1. This enabled one of the many Harvard players battling injury to step down as No. 6 Lyly Cao Minh retired trailing 4-6, 1-4, giving the Big Red its first point...
Sophomore Lyly Cao Minh showed similar resiliency, forcing a second set tiebreak after losing the first set 6-0. Mukundan and fellow freshman Cindy Chu took their opponents to the limit, losing in three sets, 6-4, 6-7 (9), 7-6 (4) and 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, respectively...
...ARRESTED. CAO QIANJIN, 27, Chinese water-purifier salesman, for allegedly poisoning a county reservoir with pesticides in order to boost sales of his products; in Ruyang county, Henan province, China. The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that the poison made 64 people...