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...only because Western opera and the Eastern world never made a natural fit. To outsiders, the traditional Peking opera seemed as much circus as song, with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that was open to learning from the outside. "If a poor country wanted to develop, it had to follow the West," says composer and conductor Guo Wenjing who performed at this year...
...signs of Democratic momentum in the Sunshine State's mid-section are appearing. In Orange County, home of Orlando, 40,000 more Democrats were registered since 2004, while Republican registration remained flat, giving Democrats a 67,000-voter edge, according to political analyst Aubrey Jewett of the University of Central Florida...
...their fists, Obama remains steadier than ever before. While he's always been calm, he has, over the last 20 months, acquired a self-assuredness, a confidence that he lacked during that long summer in 2007 when Hillary Clinton appeared to be the inevitable nominee and his speeches fell flat. This may feel like a Hollywood finish, but if Obama wins, he will very quickly come down to earth: America will return to the sobering reality of an economic crisis and wars on two fronts. His words will still matter, especially in an Inauguration or State of the Union speech...
...holiday sales account for as much as 40% of their annual revenue and up to 80% of their profits - hence the name Black Friday or the day when stores traditionally go from being "in the red" to "in the black." That's an overstatement, but with holiday forecasts predicting flat to 1% sales growth - according to Bain & Co and Archstone Consulting respectively - retailers are anticipating one of the toughest holiday shopping periods in decades. Consumers cut back spending in the July to September quarter by the largest amount in 28 years as they grappled with a tanking economy, tightening credit...
...Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters seem flat. Briegleb, with a single-mindedness that is more annoying than inspiring, pops up every once in a while to warn Christine of the LAPD’s next move, as though his only purpose is to inform the audience. Jones is far too much “the bad guy?...