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...instruments. "At the academy, I felt I was playing music from the past," says Zhang, who left home at age 11 to study at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. "But now I'm finally getting to express myself." To continue doing that, all she has to do is pluck that pipa-and keep smiling...
...Italian gardens. (Five full-time gardeners, provided by Harvard, tend to the century-old landscape.) A staffer at the villa explains that visitors cannot see the library for fear of disturbing the scholars who are “hard at work,” somehow escaping the temptation to pluck lemons from the villa’s trees in the sunny Tuscan weather. The massive library collection at their disposal seems at least as tempting—150,000 volumes and 300,000 photographs, including some of the most rare and significant tomes for Renaissance art history scholars...
...some wonder if the President's pluck may prove calamitous for this small island and its vibrant democracy. While China last week repeated comments that a referendum on the island is viewed as a dangerous step towards holding a formal independence vote?a step Beijing has long warned would spell war?of more immediate consequence to Taiwan was the reaction from its closest friend and biggest supplier of arms...
...FM’s proofers at the beginning of last semester, I thought I knew what to expect: Some removing of Crimson-hated serial commas, occasionally censoring Gossip Guy and a sneak peak at who had landed on As It Were each week. I was also prepared to pluck pesky libel out of an errant piece—and to see the sun rise on Wednesday morning every now and then...
...Scion xB looks as if it had been chopped off in a body-shop accident. But take the runt for a spin, and you may be smitten. Scion is Toyota's new youth-oriented brand, and the xB, starting at $14,165, delivers a combination of style, pluck and Toyota-backed quality that teenagers (or parents footing the bill) may find tough to beat. The xB is another reason Toyota is on track for a record fiscal year. In its first half, the six months ending Sept. 30, global revenues rose 8% to $75.4 billion, and profits soared...