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...could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. "It wasn't like a Chinese garden with a rock here and a tree there." But, in time, the ecological soundness and low cost of Yu's ideas won them over. "After all," says He, "Zhongshan...
...rebels confiscated his three brothers' electoral cards in February, and then killed them all. "They did not want money. They just wanted our [voting] cards," he said. "The Mai Mai tell people, 'If you do not give us your card you will be killed.'" Such prospects make Western leaders nervous about committing their own troops. In Berlin last week, the Congo election prompted bitter debate when the German government announced it was prepared to dispatch some 500 troops at the head of a proposed 1,500-strong European Union military force in a four-month mission. Supporters of the German...
...smoldering, painful and drawn-out affair, not unlike that of Solidarity in Poland over 30 years ago-Belarus has slid that far back under Lukashenko's decade-long reign. And a bloody backlash at some point remains a serious possibility; despite all his bravado, Lukashenko is cornered and nervous. The election, he said soon after, had "convincingly demonstrated who is the master of our house." And he isn't eager to hand over the keys...
...Mixed Diagnosis In her essay "Why I Dumped the Baby Doctor" [Feb. 27], Michelle Cottle argued that pediatricians should be more responsive to the concerns of nervous parents. As a nurse and mother for more than 25 years, I was dismayed by Cottle's account of her irrational fears. She traded a doctor who was very busy for a doctor who had plenty of time to develop a codependent relationship with a phobic parent. Her new doctor, whom she said she is seeing "about once a week," is taking advantage of a mother who apparently would rather spend time with...
...violin music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, the movement is rigorously athletic and ultra-contemporary, with flamboyant leaps that corkscrew in the air and hyperextended limbs thrown in all directions. Jazzy inflections color brilliant shifts in dynamic and direction, imbuing the whole piece with a kind of exuberant nervous energy. In particular, the male pas de deux towards the end of the performance provides the most dramatic and skillful interpretation. Mark Morris’s “Up and Down,” the best executed of the two world premieres, provides an impressive display of dynamic dancing...