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...fantasy scenes or ballet-inspired dance numbers - the sort of things that gives shows like The King and I and Oklahoma their timeless, almost mythic quality. Yet that is not to say South Pacific is any less adventurous or innovative. This is a show in which the central love story - between Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and the middle-aged French plantation owner Emile de Beque - along with the show?s big love ballad, are basically disposed of in the very first scene. The rest of the show is an exploration of that relationship, an unraveling of backstory, the placing...
...Sources: Los Angeles Times; Reuters; Korean Central News Agency; A.P.; Reuters; A.P. Numbers Sources: South China Morning Post (2); Wall Street Journal (2); BBC (2); Wall Street Journal...
...This insecurity underlies the central government's heavy-handed tactics and rhetoric, even though repression reduces the country's stature in the global community. "When the rest of the world looks at China, they see this increasingly powerful and confident country spending more and more on its military, its economy booming, its financial power overseas growing," says Jiang of the University of Alberta. "But when Chinese leadership looks at the country they see the exact opposite: weaknesses everywhere from Tibet to Xinjiang, to rising inflation and civil unrest, environmental disasters and corruption. So the overall mentality of the central authorities...
...have to have a solution in the other,” said de Waal, who had advised the African Union mediation team for the Darfur conflict and has written several books about the crisis. Henghuber also noted that the conflict has been complicated by violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), which neighbors Chad and Darfur to the south. “There are connections, as what’s happening in Chad and what’s happening in Darfur is an aggravation of the situation in CAR, as there are some spillovers,” said Henghuber...
McCarthy said he views the rebuilding of desecrated churches as part of a larger political project committed to civil justice issues, as black churches have been central to black communities...