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...halo has faded. Political opponents say Ho hasn't responded quickly enough to the city's growing problems. A light-rail system, needed to ease congestion in the city, was first proposed in 2003 but construction still hasn't begun. Labor advocates have demanded the government further restrict competition from foreign workers, build public housing and raise the minimum wage to alleviate the financial strain in the working class. Ho's administration was also brushed by scandal when his former Transport and Public Works Secretary, Ao Man-long, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in January for taking kickbacks...
...transplant the work of an author who exercised such meticulous control over his plays that he itemized the number of seconds between pauses, the precise level of gloomy light? Presumably Beckett meant "First Love" and the novel trilogy to remain in the forms in which he created them. Yet there's reason in Colgan's audacity. He wanted to prove that even Beckett's fiction has theatrical verve, that the static can be dramatic, that pieces written for the eye can entrance the ear, that, for this most "internal" author, the page was also a stage. Colgan's strongest case...
...sleepy parish of Ballyclare and Ballygowan, in rural Northern Ireland, 40 parishioners sit silently in the Church of the Holy Family. Shortly after 9 a.m., the sanctuary doors open, light floods the modest building and Father Eugene O'Hagan glides down the aisle in a white cassock, singing, "In my justice I shall see your face, O Lord...
...there's no point in having a lead category. Their job is to show up, look hot and perhaps answer a vaguely provocative question about weapons training. But Gugino contributed actual information at the Watchmen panel, discussing Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre's tragic character arc. "You see the glint of light in her eyes, who she could have been," Gugino said of a scene played at the panel. While atypical for the Con, Gugino's seriousness was an indication that Watchmen is no ordinary superhero movie...
...that of normal people who don't have Alzheimer's at all," she says. Beeri stresses that it's far too early to recommend that patients showing early signs of Alzheimer's start to take insulin with metformin or glyburide. But, she says "I am hoping that this sheds light on a potentially new mechanism for insulin's role in controlling the disease and lead us to new therapies...