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Jiang would not be willing to undertake such a risky change unless he felt secure in his own position. Now in his eighth year as Communist Party chief, he has been regularly dismissed as a political lightweight. But at this point, says Wang Shan, "there is really no one in the top leadership who can seriously challenge him." Premier Li Peng is no longer considered a threat; he will soon be rotated out of his government job, though he will remain No. 2 in the party. Everyone expects his replacement to be Zhu Rongji, the Vice Premier and respected economic...
...Picture Perfect," unlike "My Best Friend's Wedding," plays by the rules of conventional romantic comedy--giving it a generic, by-the-numbers feel. Kate's soul-searching and self-discovery are formulaic, and Aniston's too lightweight an actor for anything more. Kate superficially faces the same sort of work vs. love conflict as Michelle Pfeiffer's character in "One Fine Day." But here the conflict just doesn't seem particularly important or convincing; and her parallel moment of epiphany and instant morality again feels scripted. (Pfeiffer, of course, had the enormous help of an especially cute kid peering...
...actors are feeling some wear and tear too. Though the puppets and masks have been made as lightweight as possible, a physical therapist has been kept busy treating sore backs and muscles. Then there's the challenge of learning to act while playing second fiddle to Taymor's models. Says Casella, who once played Doogie Howser's best friend on TV and didn't know the show involved puppets when he went to audition: "The first thing Julie told us was, 'Don't upstage the puppet.' As an actor, that's the last thing you want to hear." Taymor...
Harvard's first lightweight boat raced this past weekend looking for its fourth national championship in seven years...
Things got off to a slow start for the lightweight team. A sluggish beginning in the fall season left Harvard's ability in doubt around the league...