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...able to count on Jiang's support, portending political infighting that will distract the country's leaders from China's pressing social and economic challenges, which include rising unemployment and epidemic corruption. "Jiang has made a terrible mistake" by undermining Hu and hanging on to power, says Cheng Li, a professor and China expert at Hamilton College...
...idea behind RPG is not new. In 1977, Morris’ friend Thomas Cover, now Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford, published an article in the Journal of Operations Research that introduced the precursor to RPG, Offensive Earned Run Average (OERA). “We wanted a simple statistic that would summarize the offensive power of a player,” Cover says. “We imagined putting the batter in all nine positions and seeing how many runs he would generate.” Using an elaborate process called matrix inversion and the 24-square...
...death, photos of her corpse were in the papers; her mother said, ?I feel as if my heart was sliced with a knife.? Then there was the October conviction of popster bad-boy Nicholas Tse - the son of 60s stud Patrick Tse and actress-temptress Deborah (?Hong Kong Emmanuelle?) Li - on charges of ?conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? by leaving the scene of a car crash and having his chauffeur take the rap. Photographers cut through dense foliage to snap Tse in the prison yard. And just last week EastWeek magazine was shut down by its media-mogul...
...million people have "volunteered" to sweep streets and swab bicycle racks before the congress. Thousands of red flags line boulevards in the capital, and billboards in Tiananmen Square celebrate the "victorious opening" of the congress. By quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives in a stone house within sight of the Great Hall of the People, where the weeklong congress convenes. Local Party leaders made the residents of her neighborhood drape red flags next to their doors. She shrugs, "Everybody does...
...knows how to hold chopsticks, travels from Boston to San Francisco. There he meets a distant cousin immigrant who introduces him to the city's Chinatown. Tom learns to squat on the balls of his feet, wins money at a smoky mah-jongg club, and starts to fall for Li Jian, the cute girl whose karaoke version of "Hey, Jude" is "Hey, Jute." She teaches him to read the fruit merchant's signs that give lower prices in Chinese than in English. (I knew...