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...with something even half as marketable as the strikingly beautiful Sa - or Zhou Peng, as she was known before making a stage name out of her mother's Mongolian surname and a childhood nickname. With troubles in Tibet and Xinjiang generating plenty of international interest in China's ethnic minorities, her origins are perfectly calibrated to appeal to the liberal, middle-aged and mostly Western buyers that make up world music's fan base. Born to a Han-Chinese father and Mongolian-Chinese mother, Sa was raised as a real-life nomad on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. There...
...might have thought that many Chinese would be unimpressed by the improbable package that is Sa, and denounce her ethnic borrowings and musical contrivances - but there's not a bit of it. Her big break came in 2000, when she won a singing contest on state-run China Central Television, aged 16. CCTV has been a supporter ever since, broadcasting her to hundreds of millions at a time. "As long as you don't express politically incorrect messages, from the government's point of view these kinds of artists are a very positive phenomenon," says Nimrod Baranovitch, a professor...
...villages razed, bridges buckled and blown up, railways cut. Days after the cease-fire was agreed, the Russian army was still destroying military and civilian targets; the Georgian government accused it of inexplicably setting fire to vast tracts of woodland. In South Ossetia, the looting and deliberate destruction of ethnic Georgian villages mean that the two populations - Georgian and Ossetian - will not any time soon live side by side, as they had for centuries...
...Georgia DISPATCH BURNING ANGER After a brief pause, fires have started again in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, as Ossetian villagers burn and pillage homes belonging to ethnic Georgian residents. "They did this because they don't want us to come back," says Iosif Zadashvili, who claims Russian soldiers stood by while Ossetian irregulars beat him in the courtyard of his home. With many villages reduced to burned-out shells, looters were seen hauling off TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances. On the road to the Russian border, graffiti on the side of a building read THANK YOU, RUSSIA...
Open his book The Audacity of Hope to almost any page and listen. On immigration, for example, Obama first mirrors "the faces of this new America" he has met in the ethnic stew pot of Chicago: "in the Indian markets along Devon Avenue, in the sparkling new mosque in the southwestern suburbs, in an Armenian wedding and a Filipino ball." Then he pivots to give voice to the "anxieties" of "many blacks" and "as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration," adding: "Not all of these fears are irrational." He admits that he knows the "frustration" of needing...