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...Chinese government, however subtly, is clearly trying to convey the message that the stock market isn't a casino, it's a long-term way to build wealth. CCTV, the government-controlled television network, ran a long interview this week with a pleasant, gray-haired retiree named Guo Xiufeng. She says she now has $130,000 in savings thanks to the stock market. She started investing more than 10 years ago with $2,500, she says, "and every time the market went down a bit, I would just buy a little more." Everybody got that? When the market went down...
...pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women who wear it want to observe fellow citizens, but remain unseen, as if they were cctv cameras...
...that voting for TV contestants would make the Chinese want to vote in other contexts, such as for their political leaders. Others thought Li and her fellow finalists were insufficiently prim role models. It's also possible that Super Girl--produced by a station in Hunan province--was upstaging CCTV, China's national network, which produces its own more subdued but far less popular ersatz Idol...
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV (Atlantic) 1.5 of 5 Stars Pop quiz: Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, and the Bravery—which of these bands is not like the others? Trick question: they’re all absolutely identical. While Hard-Fi may be the British buzz band of the moment, they don’t add anything new to an iPod that already contains the Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand. In fact, as the album progresses, it becomes clear that “Stars of CCTV” is nothing more than a catalogue of pre-fabricated...
...gang held a bank employee's wife and child hostage while they rifled the safe. But don't expect all this to start a trend. Among villains, bank raids are old hat. The tricky thing about robbing banks is, you have to actually go somewhere (risking witnesses and cctv cameras) and steal things that have a real weight and presence, like jewels or money. These days, it's easier and safer by far to sit in some semi-tropical Margaritaville, fire up the laptop and do a bit of identity theft or credit card fraud. Banks are for those with...