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...also true that 240 million Chinese television viewers, and probably a few soccer-crazy apparatchiks, never foresaw such a late-game loss of face. China was 1-0 up for just five minutes until Hong Kong leveled , only to then depart totally from script by slaying the mighty dragon 4-3 on penalties. How Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa explains this one might determine if the territory continues to get fresh water and receive flu-ridden poultry or whether crossing into the mainland gets harder in the run-up to the "glorious" 2008 Beijing Olympics...
CHINA Welcoming the Year of the Horse The Chinese celebrated the lunar New Year with lion and dragon dances and the customary televised musical marathon. Beijing police said protests in Tiananmen Square by foreign followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement were intended to stop the Chinese from enjoying the festival. They deported most of the more than 40 foreign nationals arrested. Since 1999 many Falun Gong supporters have been imprisoned without trial, and the movement claims over 1,600 have died in custody...
...First out is xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from a soak in a spinach marinade. We share hefeng (gentle wind) salad?a cold plate made up of star fruit, dragon fruit, octopus, asparagus and spinach drizzled with a savory sauce?and a plate piled with plump bamboo shoots. The three of us eat our fill for less than...
...tuxedo-clad Pudding hosts also persuaded Parker to “slay the heart” of a cast member dressed up as a dragon, just as Anthony Hopkins had to slay a dragon last year when he was roasted as Man of the Year...
Though Parker successful seduced the dragon, Padgett and Unnikrishnan only deemed her worthy of the “pudding pot” after she sang “Tomorrow” from “Annie...