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...Sept. 7 legislative election was widely forecast to be a rout of the democrats by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing parties. Only a week before voters went to the polls, China?s gold medalists made a triumphal tour of the city - a move some saw as an attempt to drum up support for pro-Beijing politicians. Hong Kong's government denied the athletes' visit was connected to the election. But pro-Beijing candidates couldn't help but benefit from association with the victorious Olympians. "China is rising in international status," says Joseph Cheng, secretary general of the pro-democracy Civic...
...right's views on social issues. He attended but left the University of Delaware and gradually worked his way up through small political campaigns, landing in 1998 as a press secretary for the underfunded California Senate campaign of Matt Fong, who lost to Barbara Boxer. At one point, to drum up press coverage about Fong's contention that Boxer did not take terrorism seriously, Schmidt arranged for a man in work clothes to disrupt one of Fong's own press conferences by lighting a Sterno candle to symbolize a chemical attack. "Schmidt always was thinking outside the box," says Fong...
...around U.S. head coach Hugh McCutcheon, whose family suffered the first and only tragedy of these Games. The day after the Opening Ceremonies, the father of McCutcheon's wife Elisabeth was stabbed to death and her mother critically injured by a deranged and suicidal Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach the semifinals. A win would secure...
...first Chinese pop performer to garner world-music acclaim. The Guangzhou-born Zhu Zheqin, better known by her Tibetan name Dadawa, was hailed (by a Western media obsessed with drawing parallels) as the "Chinese Enya" when her debut album Sister Drum was released by Warner Music in 1995. But interestingly, neither she nor Sa have presented themselves as mainstream Chinese. "To a Western ear, mainstream Chinese pop is too sweet - it sounds trivial," explains Baranovitch. "Minority artists offer something different and refreshing. There's a sense of primitiveness, spirituality and exoticism - it sells...
...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...