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...Spring Bamboo, published early this year, is a collection of stories by Chinese writers under 40, gathered and edited by Jeanne Tai, a New York City attorney. The variety of their expressions and subjects indicates that culture has begun to seep back to the mainland. Wesleyan Professor Ann-ping Chin offers more proof of recovery in the recent Children of China, a survey of youth in the People's Republic. "One cannot say that all China's cultural symbols and cultural assumptions were reduced to ruins," she writes. "They seem to be endowed with a life of their...
...energy," Wright offered a point-by-point rebuttal of the three main charges against him. What made the nightly news, however, was his tearful defense of his wife Betty, whose salary from a Fort Worth developer is alleged to have been a way of funneling cash to the Speaker. Chin trembling, he declared, "I will damn well fight to protect her honor and integrity from any challenge, from any source, whatever the cost...
...worker who is pumping away on a Soviet-made stationary bike. Galina Usochina, 47, a factory engineer, turns red as borscht as she works out on a rowing machine. And retiree Zinaida Kolmakova flashes a gold-toothed grin while she demonstrates how, at 61, she can do a dozen chin-ups. Business is brisk at the Krylatskoya Physical Fitness Clinic in west Moscow...
...Alex is really one of our hardest workers," Peckham says. "He keeps his chin up and he never complains. He gives you 100 percent all of the time. He would probably run head-on into a brick wall if you asked...
Kaye lost in the third round to Jeff Stanley, Princeton's number one player, 15-10, 15-10, 15-11. Before falling to Stanley in the third round, Kaye won his first two matches, including a victory over Richard Chin, Cornell's number one player...