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...family moved to Urumqi in Xinjiang. On Wuer's bedroom wall hung a portrait of the ancient poet Qu Yuan. Wuer began to write poetry, and took part in school affairs. He helped edit the school newspaper, an experience friends believe developed his interest in freedom of the press. In the summers he went on school field trips into the mountains to stay with the cossack herdsmen. That too left an impression. "He could tell the difference between the life of the ordinary people and the life of the leaders, and he got ideas from these people," said a friend...
...such soft-porn piffle as erotic movies on the Playboy cable-TV channel and videocassette centerfolds. They included vintage rushes of Sondra Theodore, Miss July 1977 and a former Hefner girlfriend, interviews with Jessica Hahn, and the 1989 Playboy Video Calendar. Playboy officials fear that the culprits will edit the stolen material in video chop shops and resell it in overseas markets at a discount, forcing the company to compete against its own pirated products...
...them to distinguish between fact and racist, or "racially insensitive" fiction. To secure facts more adequately, an editorial liason position could be established to maintain communication with minority student groups, so that if an article such as Hsia's should come before the liason he would be able to edit it accordingly...
Though Wall Street analysts are very pessimistic about the Post's future, they agree that a Sunday edition is the newspaper's only hope for survival. The reason: while daily newspaper readership has stagnated all across the U.S. in the past decade, Sunday readership has grown. Sunday editions account for 40% to 50% of the advertising revenue of many dailies. "It's a Hobson's choice," says Gary Hoenig, a veteran New York newspaperman who recently left Newsday to edit a new industry trade magazine called NewsInc. "The Post can't succeed without a Sunday paper, but it is very...
Robbins, though, wasn't clinging; he was ever tinkering, ever tightening. "One of the things I learned working on Broadway," he notes, "was the importance of economy. I found that the more I would edit my work, the better it got. Now I'm competing with myself. If anything is even a little bit indulgent, I have to cut it." Robbins also had to "adjust the pieces to another series of bodies and personalities and talents." And he had to create suites of dances from the "integrated" choreography of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof. "The West Side...