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...opening of China's mineral-extraction market to foreign investment. Wen, a geologist by training, was in a position to make a difference as the country's Vice Premier. As everybody sipped green tea in a meeting room at Zhongnanhai, the Beijing leadership compound, Wen listened politely to their pitch for streamlining the investment-approval process. The businessmen leaned closer to hear Wen's soft-spoken answer. "He gave the usual bureaucratic response," says one participant, who notes that 18 months later nothing has been done. "He said China is a big country with big problems and blah blah...
...times change. Contracts failed to materialize, and Gazza's body refused to convert the lightening moves in his mind to dazzling play on the pitch during tryouts with Major League Soccer's DC United and a slew of lackluster sides, including Scottish second division Berwick Rangers. Which is why Gazza has ended up in a training camp in southern Guangdong province, where he will practice for a couple of weeks before heading north to Lanzhou, a city so dirty that when you blow your nose the resulting mess is black. No one expected him to land here with the lowly...
...training camp, Gazza, who's been brought on as a player-coach for a reported $500,000 this season, has led his ragged side to a win over a Guangdong third-division team in a preseason friendly. On the pitch, it's easy to pick out the Englishman: he's the only one with a red face and hairy arms. "Growing up, Gascoigne was my hero," says 22-year-old teammate Li Zheng. "But in person, he looks a lot older than he does on TV." The other teammates don't know exactly what to make of Gazza, either...
...height gallery. In contrast, Susan Philipsz's art is meant to be overheard - a tune picked out clumsily on a piano; her own voice singing mournfully. David Cunningham's A Position Between Two Curves picks up ambient sound and builds it up through feedback until it reaches a certain pitch of loudness. Like Ceal Floyer's Bucket, which "catches" a recorded drip, this could be encounter by irritation. The show will continue to serve up a feast of fresh ideas through...
...Woodard ’06 says, this made them seem like a “bunch of incompetents clapping in time.” But one needs only to walk down the stairs to an otherwise unassuming Straus C basement. There’s a piano, sheet music, a pitch-pipe and eight dedicated and talented singers. While the Fallbacks are all business in rehearsal, though, their interactions reveal a close-knit group. Fallback Maria A. May ’06 cites the group’s “good energy and tight friendship” as their biggest...