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Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
...down at its collective feet so as not to stumble across the treacherous obstacle course of risers and steps. As a result, Marton, born for the title role, was oddly tentative, the sturdy Domingo seemed distracted and ill at ease, while Soprano Leona Mitchell's hey-look-me-over Liu was too aggressive. Only Cuenod's crotchety Emperor -- a Swiss singing Italian the way he imagines a Chinese might -- hit the mark. James Levine conducted grandly, and the powerful choruses were declaimed lustily if not suavely...
...Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university in Hefei. In addition, Liu Binyan, a prominent journalist, was expelled from the party for attacking Marxism as an "outdated ideology." It was unclear how many more heads might roll, but little doubt remained that China's latest experiment in political relaxation had come to a halt...
...cinematography reaches its peak in the paddle-off between Paul and Lili's boyfriend, Liu (Wang Xiao) as the former fights to prove himself true to his heritage and the latter to retain his girlfriend and his title as ping-pong champ. Showing the anguish and competitiveness of both contenders, this scene goes beyond a mere ping-pong contest and touches both characters at their souls...
November Sunday 23at Hartford W 45-43 Tuesday 26 Smith W 76-59 Saturday 30 at Brown W 71-66 December Sunday 1 at Yale L 64-48 Tuesday 3 at Boston College L 91-51 Friday 6 LIU W 86-67 Saturday 7 Lehigh L 77-58 Tuesday 10 at Columbia W 61-57 Thursday 12 at Springfield W 54-53 Saturday 14 Vermont W 67-65 Saturday 21 Maine 1:30 p.m. January Saturday 4 Dartmouth 7:30 p.m. Friday 10 Pennsylvania 6:00 p.m. Saturday 11 Princeton 6:00 p.m. Tuesday 28 Massachusetts 7:30 p.m. Friday...