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...period in 1978, America was once again viewed in a largely positive light by the average Chinese. "The U.S. represented the good life," says Joseph Cheng, head of the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. "It also represented, in the eyes of university students, the peak of scientific and technological progress...
...from its history. One can just imagine, as described in the liner notes, frenzied Rude Boys holding up deejays for copies of Wailers records. Marley holds a prominent place in that vision, a wunderkind if not a prophet, unbelievably talented and waiting to reach his musical and political peak. Fame and high art would come later. “One Love” is simply a testament to that promise, not its realization. —Reviewer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu
...Some Danger Involved,” it features the crime-fighting duo of Victorian “private enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof...
...department that’s historically had a small number of full-time professors, Statistics’ peak came in 2000, when then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles authorized three senior faculty searches, one of which recruited Meng...
...buoyant for several years (the U.S., China and India) and is finally picking up in places where it had been notably absent?Japan and parts of "old" Europe. In Germany, Europe's largest economy, the Ifo Business Climate Index, a key indicator of economic health, reached a 15-year peak last month. Moreover, earnings and corporate balance sheets around the world are as healthy as they have been in years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four straight years (the longest sustained increase since the 1970s) and consumer spending is rising briskly on the back of declining unemployment. Yuji...