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...with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They don't make their sexual affinity explicit; as Jade sings in one of her ballads, "Words are not needed in such a beautiful silence." This is the love that need not speak its name...
...Chen, these same geopolitical forces have created a unique opportunity. A new President in the U.S. Possibly a new leader in China within two years. And some shifting in Beijing's rigid Taiwan policy: Vice Premier Qian Qichen recently stressed that Taiwan and the mainland are part of one China. All previous doctrines had hinted that Beijing should govern Taiwan. The change in tone suggests there's room to negotiate. For Taiwan and its President, these are heady times. But can the 51-year-old seize the moment and make...
...Most of the premier artists Phelan hired as visiting faculty have careers outside of academia, don’t depend on Harvard for their income, and aren’t interested in taking on the administrative burdens that come with professorship...
...secret of his political success. "I got it from advertising," she has him say. "You choose your message and, even if it seems absurd at first, you repeat it on TV, in books, in newspapers, and after a bit it seems normal. Here's my latest: A clean Premier for a clean country." Despite her popularity in the role of Berlusconi, Guzzanti has other things on her mind these days. Ironically, she's not getting far away from the man she loves to knock. She's working on a film to be distributed by Medusa - one of the many companies...
...John's wort than Stephen Barrett, 67, a retired Allentown, Pa., psychiatrist who for nearly 30 years has made it his business to sniff out health-related frauds, fads, myths and fallacies. Through newsletters, books and now the World Wide Web, he has become one of America's premier debunkers of what he likes to call quackery...