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...games begin outside the handsome Guangdong Museum of Art at 38 Yanyu Lu, Ersha Island, where large, red letters that read IN GOD WE TRUST are poised above sculptor Wang Guangyi's bulky, socialist-realist statues of heroic workers that emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living...
...peak of its power in the 1990s, Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) rewarded its members with stock options, lavished expensive gifts on journalists and opinion makers, and lured tens of thousands to political rallies and election booths with the promise of free food, hats, flags, jackets, and zou-lu-kun?red envelopes stuffed with petty cash. The party even dipped into its own coffers to bolster flagging stock markets or to buy diplomatic support from impoverished nations...
...Zhenzhen Lu ’06 was in class on the eighth floor of Stuyvesant High School, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, when the first planes hit. As the school evacuated, Lu said she couldn’t see the towers through all the smoke and dust...
Although she initially tried to avoid thinking of the attacks, now she remembers them regularly and will attend both the Harvard and Cambridge ceremonies today. Lu said she regrets that the area will not hold an all-night vigil similar to one that will take place in New York...
...Lu, however, said she did not spend time worrying about terrorism yesterday...