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...Star Wars: Special Edition, we "purists" feel more than "slight resentment" at certain CG effects because they change more than cosmetics. The altered Han Solo-Greedo scene, for example, revises Han's behavior; and by implication his character, and some of the new Mos Eisley scenes add humor where none existed before. By contrast, the minor changes made in Empire were minor: the Cloud City additions are merely cosmetic back-ground elaborations, and--contrary to the reviewer's assertion--in no way was the pacing of the wampa scene changed (the musical score and cuing, for example, remain identical...
...traditional options of male and female. Instead of being asked to define themselves within the normal binary, the high school seniors will be able to choose to define themselves as a bit of both. Of course, at that point, the issue may be moot: the students may choose none of the three, pushing aside the crimson application in favor of the simple male/female boxes in the blue and white application delivered from New Haven. Either way, I'd love to see their facial expressions when they and their parents are first introduced to Harvard's pioneering experiment in "transgenderism...
Jiang has been sending warmer signals to the White House for several months and has been answered in kind, but none of the issues that breed conflict--human-rights abuse, nuclear proliferation, trade barriers, Hong Kong, Taiwan--have been settled. American intelligence agencies view the future darkly and has advised the White House that Jiang's coalition may be only a brief transition before a stronger leader takes power. Says an American intelligence official: "This is a leadership that exhibits a good mixture of hubris and insecurity...
...reins of power. Well, it would not be China or the Communist Party if that were true. Even under the red emperors Mao Zedong and Deng, as with the real emperors of the past, there were constant plots and purges. But Chinese and Western experts do generally agree that none of Jiang's potential rivals have the strength to replace him in the short term...
Those who dismiss Jiang as a transitional chief say he has no charisma, no military experience, no long career as a revolutionary fighter. In other words, he's not Deng. But none of the other members of China's collective leadership are either. Today's top Politburo members are bureaucrats and engineers. In Soviet terms, Jiang would not even be Nikita Khrushchev; rather, he's more like Leonid Brezhnev. The others are no different, and that works in two ways. They may have no more claim to greatness than Jiang, but now that Deng is gone they can easily...