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...book reading last night at Loker Commons, Chang read passages about her mother's life from her first book, Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle America. The book chronicles her mother's journey from China to Taiwan in the late 1940s and finally to the United States...
...Thani, who is 21 years old, attended Sandhurst Military College in the United Kingdom and has served as a lieutenant in the Qatari Armed Forces...
...hermit kingdom is poking its nose out of its shell. Senior State Department officials are surprised by how North Korea has begun to reach out to other countries over the past few months. Pyongyang recently established formal diplomatic ties with Italy, Brunei and the Philippines, and is discussing normalized relations with Japan and Australia. "Dear Leader" KIM JONG IL, who celebrated his 58th birthday last week by opening a consulate in Hong Kong, is even warming to the old enemy--he held a personal meeting last October with Hyundai executives from South Korea. According to U.S. diplomats, Kim finally realized...
...soon as we get over the initial awe of seeing skin all stretched to kingdom come, what's uneasy about the pictures is the composure of the subjects: unflustered, comfortable, blank. Since these are self-portraits, we know that the models are happy to sit for the camera or cameras, and probably remain themselves unscathed. As in funhouse mirrors there is therefore an uncanny disjuncture between what you see and what they feel, and we're hard-pressed not to gather the skins in our minds' eyes back into something a little more presentable. Picking out bits here and there...
...Magic Kingdom...