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...good bet. Even for the musically skeptical, there's something mesmerizing about the band's graceful stage presence, their technical virtuosity-and most of all, their euphoric expressions as they play their instruments. "At the academy, I felt I was playing music from the past," says Zhang, who left home at age 11 to study at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. "But now I'm finally getting to express myself." To continue doing that, all she has to do is pluck that pipa-and keep smiling...
...most politically pure candidates. "If you look at China's sports history, the athlete's only purpose was to glorify the Communist Party," says Tor Petersen, co-founder of Zou Marketing, a sports-marketing firm in Shanghai. "But in the past couple of years, athletes have been allowed to express themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker...
...with footnotes...they’re just different modes of operation,” Ferguson says. “I do think there...always has been an element of intellectual snobbery about those people who say, ‘Tut-tut, A.J.P. Taylor used to write for The [Sunday] Express, can’t make him Regis professor...
Smallville, featuring a teenage Clark Kent, is the No. 1 show on the WB, but the best onscreen version may be the deadpan, dead-on American Express ads on TV and the Internet featuring and in part written by Jerry Seinfeld. Does the comedian think Superman needs refurbishing? "I do," Seinfeld says. "I thought that they kind of botched it up. The last series of films really lost the whole essence of the appeal of the character." Seinfeld's Superman, who gets too much mayonnaise on his sandwich and can't figure out a DVD player, may be the most...
...less about the "Shining" than about the need for continuity and stability. But nobody - not the BJP, nor Congress, nor most of the pundits in the land that invented the term - had estimated the depth of popular anger. And that translated into an anti-incumbent rage that Americans might express in the slogan, "Throw the bums...