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China may claim 5,000 years of civilization--as locals often remind visitors from younger nations--but over the past half-century most of the country forgot its collective manners. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic, considered teeth brushing a Western affectation and thought nothing of greeting international dignitaries while wearing patched trousers. Although China has mostly shed Chairman Mao's class-busting ideology and cities like Shanghai boast skyscrapers and bustling shopping malls, the deportment of some citizens evokes an era of subsistence. Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like...
...Jackson was ''not even in the third circle of Clinton's friends.'' While Jackson insists, ''I have no personal vendetta against Bill Clinton,'' one of his friends says Clinton saw Jackson as a bumpkin and treated him badly. Whether the slights were real or imagined, Jackson, he says, never forgot. When the two men returned home, Clinton began his rise to the top of Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding; in 1986, for example, he filed a $2 million suit on behalf of a woman who said...
...Beckford’s goal was partly the result of a breakdown on the Crimson’s backline. “We switched to three [defenders] in the back,” said captain and defender Will Craig. “One of our guys forgot we were playing that way, got caught up in the play, and left the [Holy Cross player] right there. He just forgot about his mark and the guy was free through.” Despite having rallied once in the game already, Harvard was unable to do so again—a problem...
After one of the protestors dropped his sign, the staffer said, “You forgot this!” and handed it back...
Yuan’s playing evidently roused the audience to such a degree that they forgot their concert etiquette and committed the apparent faux pas of applauding (with a standing ovation, no less) after the first movement. This warm response was a prelude to their reception to the piece as a whole, as the audience leapt to their feet at the last chord of the concerto...