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Created by Aaron M. Shapiro '94 and Jonathan K. Hsu '94, the premier issue of Inside Edge marks the culmination of 18 months of organizing, brainstorming, marketing, writing and editing...
Techniques such as acupuncture and herbal therapy are not solely the property of rural practitioners. On a visit to the premier mental hospital in Beijing. Westerners observed acupuncture being used to treat neurosis and depression...
Superficially at least, it was a big advance over the last time Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa met with an American President: there were no digestive mishaps, and by quoting the song Yes! We Have No Bananas, Miyazawa made light of Bill Clinton's remark to Boris Yeltsin that Japanese say yes when they mean no. As for substance, however, Clinton's first U.S.-Japanese summit did not mark much of a change in the relations between the two countries. "Let's not paper this over," said Clinton. "There are differences still between the Prime Minister and me." Japanese markets...
...Slow Dancing with the Moon is an ideal reminder of Parton's status as a premier singer-songwriter. Her plaints, like I Will Always Love You (a recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...
Playwright Barker, one of Britain's premier ideological artists, gives this outspoken woman a subtle, likable enemy in the person of the ruling doge, glitteringly played by Frank Langella. Also arrayed against her are a female critic and, on occasion, her own lover, himself an artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes...