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...Maybe, for once, Zhang just wants to fit in. It's an understandable drive for someone who, thanks to the tumult of China's postwar politics, has always lived on the margins. Zhang's father fought with the nationalists in the Chinese civil war; Zhang, born two years after the communist victory, grew up in the social ghetto reserved for children of traitors. During the Cultural Revolution he was forced to leave high school, barred from applying to college, and given a job fit for the lowliest of political undesirables: as a night-shift janitor at a cotton mill...
...Yuen's forecast may be overly optimistic. Conventional sets still account for 96% of TV sales. More than 150 million are sold every year. But the days of the space-hogging picture tube do seem numbered. In smaller sizes, flat screens can fit into places where crts simply won't go, such as in a bookshelf or on a kitchen countertop. At the other end of the size spectrum, jumbo wall-mounted flat-screens are ideal for cinema-like home theater systems?and displays keep getting bigger. LG.Philips lcd recently announced a prototype for a 52-inch model that will...
...offer comfort food for exiled subcontinentals, and a touch of cheap spice for everyone else. That was yesterday's formula. A new crop of Indian restaurateurs is aiming for international culinary recognition?while also trying to attract diners with fat wallets?by offering ultra-cool premises, wine lists fit for a Michelin-starred French gem, and an innovative take on old classics...
...announced. “Though my family doth wish it, she hath not my heart.” Word on the street is that he pines for Mary Kelly ’04, who is exceeding clever, but unfortunately Irish. “She is more fit to be a chambermaid than a bride,” sniffed Spencer’s father, Lord Nigel Spencer...
This long-awaited meeting assembled the biggest players in the high-stakes battle that’s taking shape over how culture will fit into Harvard’s new Allston campus...