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...there's one aspect of Yang's misfortune that is not surprising at all: a Mainland private company has been embroiled in allegations of monkey business once again. Entrepreneurs like Yang?bold, flamboyant and aggressive?are heralded as the face of China's capitalist future, and fledgling private companies are viewed hopefully as a wellspring of growth and an engine of job creation to replace the country's decrepit state-owned enterprises. But they are also the product of a rapidly changing economy in which state control left over from the days of hard-line communism mingles with freewheeling capitalism...
...late in tom petty's career for him to monkey with his sound, and on The Last DJ, Petty's 14th album, he remains a committed minimalist, letting jangly guitars, floating keyboards and his much imitated whine rule the day. But Petty is still evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes...
...known for its small art galleries, is full of such back-alley teahouses. Their d?cor is often as odd as their names, and they offer more teas than you can shake a stuffed carp at. Try The New Old Teashop, which boasts uncaged birds, an oversized chameleon, and a monkey that likes rice crackers. My personal favorite is the Moon Bird Does Not Only Think of the Moon Teashop, where your infusion comes with complimentary yakgwa, traditional honey cakes...
...world's funniest joke is not actually the world's funniest joke. "It was," Wiseman confesses, only "the world's funniest clean joke." More than 10,000 of the gags submitted by respondents around the world were too smutty for the censors. "I usually wouldn't give a monkey's [about vulgarity]," Wiseman says, acknowledging that censorship may have compromised his science. "But this was going on the university's website, so I had to." Learning all of this has made me feel better. So has hearing the most popular joke among the French - one that did make me laugh...
What is often remembered of Hart’s presidential campaign is a photograph of him on a yacht, named “Monkey Business,” with a young blonde named Donna Rice sitting...