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Crimsoncupid, the latest in what has become an annual tradition of launching romance-related websites just in time for Valentine’s Day, is this year’s most recognizable, personal and usable website. While still flawed, it is vastly superior to its predecessor, Crimsonhookups.com. Likely none have forgotten that now sadly deactivated site, a service so devoid of even the slightest hint of human emotion that the experience of using it felt more like activating a computing account than searching for love...
...faith in the monarchy has also plummeted since the palace slaughter of 2001, in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra (Gyanendra's brother) and eight other royals before turning his revolver fatally on himself. King Gyanendra is nowhere near as popular as his predecessor?and by seizing power he could be playing into the hands of the Maoists, who want to topple the monarchy and form a communist republic. The rebels wasted no time in reacting. Maoist leader Prachanda denounced the "genocidal, corrupted national betrayer Gyanendra...
...know exactly where your red should be to bring you money, luck or love, never fear: wabi-sabi, the latest Asian-inspired design craze, is here to help. With its celebration of the imperfect, unpredictable and incomplete, wabi-sabi is a much more forgiving style than its predecessor...
...know exactly where your red should be to bring you money, luck or love, never fear: wabi-sabi, the latest Asian-inspired design craze, is here to help. With its celebration of the imperfect, unpredictable and incomplete, wabi-sabi is a much more forgiving style than its predecessor. Wabi-sabi is a catchall term for a 16th century Japanese discipline that combines the notions of wabi (things that are simple or humble) and sabi(things that gain beauty from age). Artist and architect Leonard Koren introduced the term to Americans a decade ago with his extended essay, Wabi-Sabi...
...indoctrination of students?for that is what an improvement in political thinking means?is not the kind of reform many people expected from Hu. Although his rise to power betrayed little of his political leanings, Hu had left hints that he was more open to political change than his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. He rose through the ranks of the Party's more liberal organs, such as the Communist Youth League, helped terminate a crackdown on intellectuals in the early 1980s, and urged high-ranking cadres to study foreign political systems in the 1990s. Since assuming China's top posts...