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...Party line is correct at any given time, thus enjoying a life of chauffeured Audis and plentiful shark's fin soup. Their stories, rife with the contradictions that puzzle China scholars, encapsulate the country's history and pose questions about its present course: will China dominate the world or crash spectacularly? Pomfret doesn't dictate the answer. Instead, he gives us the material to argue for either conclusion-and many subtle gradations in between. -By Hannah Beech...
...Motive? Mohammed al-Fayed, the father of Dodi, who was also killed in the crash, contends the British establishment bumped off Dodi and Diana to hide her pregnancy or to keep them from getting married. But Stevens concluded on the basis of hospital records, tests on blood in the destroyed car and talking to Diana's friends who knew her menstrual cycle that she was not pregnant at the time of her death. And as for engagement to Dodi, he had bought a ring, but had not yet proposed, "and we believe she never saw that ring," said Stevens...
...Opportunity? The helter-skelter movements of Dodi Fayed and Diana in the hours before the crash, with last-minute changes of plan - Paul had been off duty until shortly before he got in the car, which left from the back of the hotel instead of the front, as expected - meant a murder operation of this complexity, to provoke a crash on an unanticipated route, could not have been mounted...
...Loose ends? The celebrated white Fiat Uno that scraped the Mercedes before it crashed has still not been found. Stevens attacked head-on the idea that James Andanson, a photojournalist who owned such a car and later was found to have committed suicide, was a secret agent and was involved in the Diana crash. Stevens found Andanson had been home with his wife that night, before flying the next day to an assignment in Corsica...
...pulled down six offensive boards, and forward Brett Gifford had three in the second half. “Coming into the game we knew that Wilson was their leading rebounder,” captain Jim Goffredo said. “And we knew the other two wings like to crash as well. We just didn’t do a good job of keeping them off the boards.” The Great Danes constantly had all five players in pursuit of offensive rebounds, as every starter grabbed at least one rebound on the offensive end. The team finished with...