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...fall from power? In the winter of 1986-87, students protested in favor of democratic reforms. Deng blamed Hu, a relative liberal, for inspiring the protests; Hu lost his post as leader of the Communist Party, though he remained in the Politburo...
...made himself the Vice President in favor of torture." STANSFIELD TURNER, former CIA chief and president of the Naval War College, criticizing U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney last week on his efforts to water down proposed antitorture legislation...
...challenge the limitation imposed by Samuel L. Jackson’s recent comment that rappers shouldn’t act—Jackson was justifying refusing to appear in 50 Cent’s debut “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” in favor of a movie called (seriously) “Snakes on a Plane.” “I read, I study, I practice,” RZA says. “The Godfather [Jackson] says rappers shouldn’t act and that really bothers me. I respect...
...Prince” Billy’s (née William Oldham) seasonal tour of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. His detour in the South is reflected in the album’s sound: Oldham’s usual lo-fi folk aesthetic is dropped in favor of a Skynrydesque Southern-rawk. The album’s harder sound is also due to Matt Sweeney’s guitars: the last time Oldham and Sweeney collaborated, as the alt-country power-duo “Superwolf,” the results were similarly heavy. Though you wouldn?...
...sure what’s going to happen here—if I’m going to play or if Richard’s going to be starter’,” O’Hagan says. “It just worked out in my favor...