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Official propaganda hasn't changed?Tibetan song-and-dance troupes still pirouette on television to folksy ditties like The Communist Party Turned Bitter to Sweet. The change comes instead from people like artist Li Bing, whose father once oversaw Chairman Mao's travel plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common...
...Part of his game needed improvement, apparently. Last week, Beijing sacked Wang from his job as president of the China Construction Bank amid investigations into lending abuses during his tenure at the Bank of China (BOC). Although not yet charged with any crime, Wang allegedly oversaw millions of dollars in questionable loans made in China and abroad, according to Dai Xianglong, governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department reportedly is conducting an investigation into suspected wrongdoing at the BOC's New York City-based U.S. headquarters while Wang...
Until recently, Cote d'Ivoire had been considered the haven of political stability amidst the turbulence that has surged in neighboring countries. Located on the southern edge of West Africa, it gained independence from the French under the leadership of Felix Houphouet-Boigny in 1960. He oversaw an economic boom but suppressed opposition and imposed a one-party system controlled by the Democratic Party for 33 years...
Within the government, Shalala oversaw health and welfare policies, including the Medicare and Medicaid programs. During the Carter administration, she was assistant secretary of housing and urban development...
...year tenure, Bok lived up to his names. He oversaw the Harvard-Radcliffe merger of 1977, participated in restructuring the curriculum and implemented many other changes...