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...Although it remains his touchstone, Mo Yan acknowledges that the gritty modern Gaomi is very different from the midcentury, rural township of his fiction - a place where peasants ride stoic donkeys and heavily laden camels walk the dusty streets. Film buffs may know it from Zhang Yimou's 1988 adaptation of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, set during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote...
...Benedict know about the priest's swift return to pastoral work after his therapy? The archdiocese says the decision was made by Benedict's then deputy, who has taken full responsibility. But the American priest in Rome says Ratzinger, famously a micromanager, must have known of the decision. "It's probably just a matter of time," the American says, "before it comes out that he did know more than they are saying...
William Silvert, São Brás de Alportel, Portugal One line really struck me - "Washington, which knows that the world remains a dangerous place ..." - and its implication that Europe doesn't know this. Washington didn't even know that the world beyond its borders existed before 9/11. Then it suddenly discovered terrorism and leaped into the lead in fighting this threat. And who happily signed on? Britain, which had been fighting the IRA for ages and who had seen U.S. support for terrorism dry up (some Irish pubs in the U.S. even had IRA collection boxes); Spain, whose...
Tharp confesses she's never seen either show--she hasn't got a TV set, she says, and doesn't "know squat about ballroom dancing"--but cheers the trend. "It's great. I'm all in favor of it." And why not? Tharp has spent most of her career striving to expand dance's vocabulary and audience. "People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' I'm very, very interested in how people who come to my shows with...
Obama has spoken about Asia's significance. "I want every American to know that we have a stake in the future of this region," he said in Tokyo last November, "because what happens here has a direct effect on our lives at home." But since then the Obama Administration has failed to do much to advance the free-trade agreements that Asia seeks. "We do hope that [Obama's Asia visit] will not be like Santa Claus coming and just giving a few gifts and flying away," says Thailand's Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot, "because what we need from...