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Still, this very unfamiliarity can sometimes produce a particular kind of thrill. One evening at the Forbidden City Concert Hall this month, American pianist Murray Perahia was performing a selection of classical compositions. He held the audience fast as he moved from Beethoven to Mozart to Bach, but he truly blew the doors off the place when he reached his Chopin. As he left the stage after his last listed piece, some of the audience members - unfamiliar with the tradition of the encore - left the hall. Perahia returned to play some more, and the remaining audience not only applauded...
Even as the classical industry in China grows, nobody pretends it's fully mature yet - nor without some problems particular to the country. A billion potential music fans means a billion potential buyers for pirated recordings of the masters, and bootlegged Mahlers and Beethovens are already turning up. Then too, there are Chinese audiences themselves, who still have a little learning to do about the classical ways...
...pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Obama joined Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the 1980s, when Obama was an obscure community organizer. Trinity gave Obama an entrée to the city's thriving black middle class, and Obama came to view Wright in particular as a mentor. Yet earlier this year, Obama was compelled for political reasons to leave the church. The public criticism stemmed from controversial comments about the U.S. by Wright that proved too harsh to the ears of outsiders, many who are not aware of the nuances of the black religious...
...interpretation of Roe v. Wade. "I think [the FCA] is a horrible idea," Hunter says. "But it's just a bill in committee," and it would take time to reach the presidential desk. "Circumstances and constituencies evolve, so I'm not sure that a promise he made to a particular constituency some time ago will even be relevant in two years...
...most part, Iranian government reaction was muted. Iran's conservative broadcast media reported on Obama's victory right away, but state television's most important evening news program highlighted people's discontent with the Republicans - and in particular, with Bush's post-9/11 policies - rather than focusing on the euphoria surrounding the person and candidacy of America's first black President...