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...which featured mainly rows of bored Chinese exhibitors from around the country. Many of them would have stayed home, too, but the government ordered them to attend. "We know the situation is bad and scary, but as a Shanghai organizer, I had to tell our companies that it is okay," says Ms. Hou, who is overseeing a 1,000-plus person delegation. When her group returns to Shanghai, it will be quarantined for 14 days. The exhibition "is too desperate for money," Hou complains, "and our lives are at risk." Hers and, across China, how many more...
...ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing to win. Okay, so granted that bingo, a favored pastime of Britain's comfy slipper set, will never pass for an extreme sport. But recently the industry has been working hard to shake off its old-age image. With some success: in any given week, around 3 million people play bingo across...
Maya Simon ’06 also looked up to the young mischief maker. “I just thought she was really cool because even though she never listened to her parents it always worked out okay,” Simon reminisces. “I was never really good at being bad, so Anastasia was kind of a role model for me – something to aspire to. When I suggested buying gerbils and breeding them like Anastasia did in one of her books, my parents were not quite as thrilled with my choice of heroines...
Salmon, who is considering music as a possible career, saw the workshop as a chance to work with someone with professional experience and to test out her material. In one of her songs she intones, “What makes it all okay? / The music that we play / What makes the dark light? / The music that we write...
...years I want to be a kind of person who knows how to get you to be excited about a thing but also can give you the feeling that everything is going to be okay. And I want to be a director...