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...featuring ex-Harvard popsters Chester French, Common’s delivery is reduced to simple monosyllabic rhymes with the same monotonous meter: “I met a boy from Chicago, had dreams to be a star / And make a way, and get some pay, and drive a fancy car.” Nevertheless, Common’s rapping seems practically virtuosic compared to the album’s disappointing guest appearances by Cee-Lo, Chester French, and Kanye West. Kanye’s performance on “Punch Drunk Love” is particularly disappointing. He contributes nothing...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Common | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...After the exchange of vows, Mettursun Beydulla, the groom’s brother, helped the newlywed ceremonially bring his new wife to his parents’ house. But when 30-year-old Mettursun Beydulla stepped out of the car at home, he was promptly arrested by the Chinese police...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Shelters Eastern Scholar | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...said as much to the police. “I know it is illegal,” he said. “They say no, don’t worry about the law. We are behind you...what we can do—you want a car? And money? And I say, ‘I can’t do this...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Shelters Eastern Scholar | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...Chery will need all the help it can get. The global financial crisis is dampening the recent hopes of Chinese carmakers to become major international players. Chery's ambitions took a hit this week when a joint project with Chrysler to develop a small car for sale in the U.S. and elsewhere was terminated. In a statement, Mike Manley, Chrysler's executive vice president for international sales and marketing, said that the decision to cancel the cooperation agreement was made jointly by both companies because they "have realized that the economic situation and market environment around the world have changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Booming Car Market Shifts into Reverse | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...some people backing him up. Despite the recent downturn, analysts remain bullish on the prospects of the China market. Lin says the car market will begin to pick up again in the second half of 2009, bolstered by the giant government economic stimulus packages that have recently been laid out in Beijing. That money, he argues, will rebuild confidence among nervous consumers. "In the long term, the China market is still quite promising," Lin says. Though that is undoubtedly true, the road getting there will be a bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Booming Car Market Shifts into Reverse | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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