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...contrast between such sentiments and the attitudes of the current crop of leading artists, like Zhang Xiaogang, Zhu Wei and Fang Lijun, couldn't be starker. Mostly now in their 40s, many of the artists suffered through the tail end of the Cultural Revolution. The cultural flowering that followed in the '80s was another casualty of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Many artists left the country. Now back, they're thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong...
...LeapFrog learning toys (www.leapfrog.com), and this year the company has a bumper crop. Fans of the Colbert Report may have seen Stephen playing with the 100 Hoops basketball counting game ($25, ages 3-6); he jokingly called it a ?threat? because it teaches kids English and Spanish. There?s another cute bilingual counting game for kids in the 6-36 month age group ? the Learn & Groove Counting Maracas...
...hard to think of some new gimmick in dieting." Have no fear. Each year as the New Year's resolution season draws near, the publishing industry dreams up novel weight-loss schemes to entice the ever plumper U.S. population, nearly two-thirds of which is overweight. The new crop of diet books recommends everything from treating meals as mood medicine to eating dinner for breakfast. Here's a sampler. The Best Life Diet By Bob Greene...
...consistently highly ranked women’s and men’s basketball programs, has scoured its campus for similar all-male scout teams for its women’s squad. The result: the Blue Devils made it to the championship game of the NCAA tournament last year.Now, the crop of top-tier basketball talent is deeper at a larger, more well-known basketball powerhouse such as Duke. But members of this Crimson scout team, with Putchel at its forefront, possess a commitment for similar results.“One of his goals is to get us to the NCAA...
With this year’s leading crop of UC candidates focusing on increased advocacy and student services rather than on overhauling the council itself, UC President John S. Haddock ’07 and Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 appear to have fulfilled their own campaign pledge to “fix the UC.” Over the past two semesters, the UC has created a social programming board separate from the council and funded entirely by the College, reducing the size of the council from three to two committees, without decreasing its budget...