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...once had the opportunity to see Pearl Jam live and up close. But then MTV fame grabbed hold, and I now watch them (and many other of my favorite bands) from afar. Perhaps declining record sales are in a way a blessing for these bands, and will make them truly alternative once again. JONATHAN HURWITZ San Francisco
...Mary to the angel. His gaze is disturbingly prophetic: Renee would eventually desert his wife and run away with his neighbor’s wife.The technical aspects of the painting are equally ambiguous. According to Wolohojian, the eye of the viewer is “immediately drawn to the pearl earring” in the angel’s ear. But that precise white dot is mirrored by the energetic but inexplicable white splotches of paint on and around the figure of Mary. In the foreground, some of the ruffles on the furniture are meticulously shaded, while an entire ottoman...
...countryside, I witnessed this situation firsthand near the city of Jinan, where a farmer who had been elected by villagers to be their chief was beaten up by people suspected to be cronies of the local government's defeated candidate. Similar events unfolded this summer, when farmers in the Pearl River Delta village of Taishi tried to orchestrate a recall motion to oust a village chief. Although the villagers had the law on their side and had collected the requisite number of signatures, their efforts failed...
...That was then. Last week, Lu was beaten unconscious in the Pearl River Delta town of Taishi, where? accompanied by a journalist from the Guardian, a British newspaper?he had gone to help residents impeach their own village chief. "Three hundred meters from the village headquarters, we were stopped by men on motorcycles and the car was suddenly surrounded by many people," Lu told TIME last week, speaking in a safe house in Wuhan. "They recognized me and said 'That's the one!' I guess they'd been shown my picture. They opened the door and dragged...
...able to claim just one semester as leader of SAC instead of two. In a presidential campaign, neither would be able to point to the year of experience—or the year’s worth of SAC reforms—that made the position such a pearl in the past.But that didn’t stop the race from being a heated one. Gadgil snagged it after a week of intense campaigning, becoming the first female SAC chair since 1997 and throwing a wrench in any presidential plans Haddock had. Instead, Haddock will reprise the vice-chair position...