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...this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew, could reopen debate about his ideas. Many Chinese had hoped that their current leader, President Hu Jintao, would someday invoke Zhao and nudge China toward an opening of its political system...
...gaming like India or Morocco," says Romain Poirot-Lellig, director of the industry association APOM. EA says its intentions are not hostile and industry sources in the U.S. point out that one of Ubisoft's best-selling games is - mon dieu! - that great French cultural gem, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. - By Peter Gumbel Apple Gets Hard Core Profits at Apple more than quadrupled to a record $295 million in the first quarter, thanks to a 525% jump in sales of the iPod. Meanwhile, the computer maker unveiled the Mac mini, a cut-price desktop, and a no-frills, smaller...
...last four years have been equally painful for the two clubs, but in very different ways. The Yankees have felt the pain so common to their Boston counterparts: the agony of coming tantalizingly close to glory but ultimately failing. If the ghost of Babe Ruth has haunted Fenway Park these past 86 years, then the ghosts of Luis Gonzalez, David Eckstein, Josh Beckett and Johnny Damon should find plenty of cozy resting places in cavernous Yankee Stadium...
Of all the miracles surrounding the Nativity, the central and essential one is Jesus' birth to a woman who had "never known a man." In Luke, the angel Gabriel explains to Mary about her son's conception as follows: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Although neither of the Nativities marks a moment for the beginning of her ensuing pregnancy, Christians have long assumed it followed directly upon...
...suggest that this (and Matthew's verse, "that which is conceived in [Mary] is of the Holy Ghost") is anything other than reported fact is to court blasphemy. The Holy Spirit's role in the conception in Mary's womb of God's Son, so spectacular and yet also touchingly intimate, is part of Christianity's theological bedrock and began entering the faith's creeds by the 2nd century. (Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy's beliefs go further, maintaining that Mary remained a virgin during and after Jesus' birth.) Says John Barclay, a New Testament expert at the University of Durham...