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...Clinton Administration considered Wei's release to be a payoff from its policy of "constructive engagement" with China. Wei was such a leading light of the dissident movement--and thus considered so dangerous by the Chinese government--that his supporters sometimes feared he would never go free. A former electrician in Beijing, Wei first gained notoriety with a 1978 essay advocating that Deng Xiaoping broaden his campaign to carry out "Four Modernizations"--of industry, agriculture, science and the military--to include democracy as a "fifth modernization." The next year, after writing a wall poster that accused Deng of being...
...song Barbie Girl for the 1,651st time on the radio--you just want to hear an old-fashioned song song. The kind where the singer actually sings, the melody actually has a melody, and the whole thing builds gradually, powerfully, inevitably, and crests with a big golden payoff note. Three new albums would seem to be aimed at that need: Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love (550 Music), vocal power lifter Michael Bolton's All That Matters (Columbia) and Barbra Streisand's Higher Ground (Columbia). These performers are of differing ages, but they...
...check out her 1970 rendition of the title song from her movie musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: it makes you feel eligible for frequent-flyer miles. Streisand also has that rare ability to make show-biz emotions seem sincere; when she hits those big payoff notes, she doesn't do it just because she can; she does it because the song calls for it, because the big note she's holding is the only way to express what she's feeling. Higher Ground, unfortunately, is more of a low-lying plateau. It's an album...
...What's the payoff of our region? What can we learn there that is more powerful than what we can learn somewhere else? If so [foundations] should allocate resources. If not, then what are you doing?" Bates says...
Last season's squad--featuring only two seniors and sixteen underclassmen--led Tomassoni to give those youngsters significant ice time. The hope is that the struggles this brought last year's team will payoff this season...