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...weekend as the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, averaging 14.8 points and 6.8 rebounds on the season. She played like a star the night before when she scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a win over Dartmouth in which she surpassed the 1,000 point plateau for her career...
...ditties like The Communist Party Turned Bitter to Sweet. The change comes instead from people like artist Li Bing, whose father once oversaw Chairman Mao's travel plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common for artists as a paint-spattered studio, and many galleries peddle their renderings of noble Tibetan...
Chinese have fallen for Tibet. Growing numbers of Chinese now practice Tibet's form of Buddhism, fill their glasses with Tibetan booze and consider a jaunt on the high plateau a badge of cool. Many of the Tibetan practices they ape can be as tacky as white men in redface doing a rain dance. Yet given that official propaganda has for decades blamed Tibetan culture itself for keeping Tibetans poor, ignorant and not above suspicion of cannibalism, this sudden interest shows the government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about...
...they were in the article by Robert Sullivan, "Big Bucks and Baseball" [SPORT, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. I have never been among those critical of the size of any player's salary, present or past. Nor have I ever had a "sky is falling" reaction to any new contract plateau that has been achieved. What I have said is that a successful league depends upon each team's having a reasonable opportunity to compete. Until fairly recently, that opportunity existed in baseball. It no longer does, and will not again, until owners and players undertake significant reforms, allowing each...
...things make me say that Lemieux is on an equal plateau with Gretzky. One, Lemieux returned from numerous injuries and even cancer, and was still the best player in the league. Gretzky never went through a fragment of the injuries that Lemieux...