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...process of rebuilding here. I think this is our moment. I'm going to be here as long as the moment lasts." Goss has mastered the art of speaking without saying anything. He would do better to concentrate on his hobby of organic gardening. Danny Armstrong Perth I applaud your extensive and indepth report on China [June 27]. As a person who has traveled to China and fallen in love with it, I appreciate your effort to broaden Americans' view of this often misunderstood country. China has made progress economically, but there are many major social issues...
...been three years since Businessman Alan Bond and his Australia II broke the 132-year U.S. hold on the America's Cup and put it in a bulletproof glass case in the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Barely a month after that defeat, the first Americans showed up in Perth, followed since by yachtsmen from five other nations, all of them plotting how to wrest the Cup from the Aussies. Last week the joust began...
...record 13 challenging 12-meter yachts--hulls gleaming, sails taut and design breakthroughs as secret as possible--launched a series of up to 255 heats off Fremantle, Perth's port city. Six American syndicates want the chance to confront the Australian defender in the finals at the end of the southern summer next February. So do two teams each from France and Italy, as well as entries from Britain, Canada and New Zealand, whose unique fiber-glass boat was doing well enough last week to draw a protest. This week four Australian boats, including another of Bond's, will begin...
...assembling a coalition to invade Afghanistan and crush the Taliban, who had provided sanctuary to the terrorists of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. A key element of Australia's contribution to that coalition - a role known as Operation Slipper - was the legendary Special Air Service Regiment. Based in Perth, the regiment is the Australian Army's most highly trained and best equipped unit. It's said to cost more than $A1 million to train one of the 100 or so fighting men who make up each of its three regular, or Sabre, squadrons; they are experts in parachuting, deep...
...Born of Chinese parents in Perth before growing up in Brunei and, later, Melbourne, Lim is cross-fertilization in action. Her music embodies the process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent...