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...China Books vary greatly in quality, but even the best leave me cold due to their bird's-eye view of the P.R.C. Adopting an Olympian perspective, their authors tend to use broad strokes to portray things that actually require a fine-grained touch. For example, most treat China's population as an undifferentiated mass, or one that can be bisected along just one axis: be it the 90% Han and 10% non-Han ethnic divide, the clear ideological fault line between loyalists and dissidents, and so on. And they often buy into the cozy but distorting official myth...
Still, it's done fine, and that's a tribute to Cameron's insane ingenuity, the visual magic concocted by his special-effects team and the willingness of the mass audience to give their hearts to something new and pay extra...
Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Gerald Stewart recently offered a one-time deal to drop all criminal charges and issue a $50 fine for each infraction, according to joint Law School and Kennedy School student Craig S. Altemose, the founder of Students for a Just and Stable Future (SJSF), which coordinated the sleep-outs last fall. The Boston police had issued trespassing citations at five different sleep-out protests last fall, where SJSF members pushed for the Massachusetts State Legislature to introduce a bill for 100 percent clean energy...
...original version of the Feb. 8 news article "Charges Not Filed For Past Protests" stated that the Suffolk County District Attorney's office recently offered a one-time deal to drop all criminal charges and issue a $50 fine for each infraction. To clarify, Assistant District Attorney Gerald Stewart—who is in the Suffolk County D.A.'s office—offered the deal...
...Steven had a tough couple matches,” Weiss said. “But he’s going to be fine. I know he’s going to turn it around and come right back...