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Maoism and the Cultural Revolution made that harder to do. Even indigenous opera was swept aside in favor of such turgid revolutionary works as The Red Detachment of Women and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Long experienced the suffocation of the musical arts in a more personal way than most when his grandfather, who had studied music in Paris, was sent to the country to work - but only after the Red Guards destroyed his musical library. "When I was five he started teaching me music anyway," Long says. "We were only allowed to learn revolutionary songs, but he taught them...
Making the first start of his career, quarterback M.A. Olawale threw an interception on the game’s first play from scrimmage. He later fumbled on a scramble and was pulled in favor of former starter Shane Kelly. However, a Kelly fumble late in the fourth quarter sealed the game for the Bulldogs. Yale running back Mike McLeod romped for all three of Yale’s touchdowns, the second of which came off of excellent field position resulting from the blocked punt. The Bulldogs did not turn the ball over...
...largest margins of victory in Los Angeles county, where less than a third of the population is white and the median Household income is $7,000 lower than the California state average. And in San Bernardino county, heavily hit by home foreclosures, the vote was still strongly in favor...
...interesting that you mention Obama, because while he did not support Proposition 8, he is also not in favor of full marriage equality...
...Parliamentarians who voted in favor of the bill deny this. "We are only giving voice to our constituents who are concerned with what they see on television and a sense of moral degradation," explains Zulkiflimansyah from the Muslim-oriented Prosperous Justice Party. Still other supporters say the law chiefly aims to regulate the distribution of adult materials, which circulate freely across the country in both big cities and small villages...