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...Mark Harris is the author of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood...
...because that's where the money is," says Phil Roth chief technical analyst at Miller Tabak in New York City. "And there the index is still about 4% above its November low." Even so, Roth believes Thursday's Dow drop and its new low-water mark will make the next few trading days anxious ones. "It's important psychologically," he says, noting that negative sentiment has kept buyers at bay, and today's technically significant drop could make them even more skittish. Days like this can also be a tipping point of sorts. "It will be important to see over...
...mark the anniversary, many Tibetans conducted a widespread campaign of civil disobedience this Lunar New Year against authorities in other heavily Tibetan areas of China, like Qinghai, where around half of the country's 6 million ethnic Tibetans live. And with a probable boycott of Lunar New Year celebrations set to unfold inside Tibet, where the 15 days of festivities begin on Feb. 25 in accordance to the Tibetan lunar calendar, tension is likely to rise further. Even Chinese officials have said they can't rule out an outbreak of trouble, blaming the Dalai Lama for fomenting unrest. Tensions could...
...sentiment in areas like Qinghai is anything to go by, further protests, arrests and possibly worse seem inevitable given the depth of anger among the Tibetan population. Most Tibetans here refused to undertake any of the public activities that usually mark the coming of the New Year. "There was no dancing or singing. No one let off fireworks, even though the Chinese gave people money to buy them," says one young villager. He says the decision was not coordinated by outside forces (officials from Tibet's government in exile have called for a boycott of the celebrations in interviews with...
...hard to predict what will happen," says Rigzin. "But if they try to shove it down their throats and make Tibetans celebrate, that would not be good at all." Even if this period passes quietly, the year ahead contains many more potentially explosive anniversaries for Tibetans. April will mark the 20th anniversary of the bloody 1989 suppression of anti-Chinese protests in Lhasa. Even more sensitive will be the 50th anniversary, in mid-March, of the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in India after the so-called Lhasa uprising was suppressed by the People's Liberation Army...