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Last Tennis Game: The previous weekend. Practiced with Nick Bolletteri, the world’s premier tennis coach...
MARYSE CONDÉ, DARRYL PINCKNEY, AND PATRICIA POWELL. Hailing from Guadeloupe and considered one of the premier literary voices of the modern Francophone world, Condé will read from her 1996 tale Segu. She will be joined by Darryl Pinckney, whose work Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature is based on a recent series of lectures at Harvard. Briggs-Copeland Fellow Patricia Powell, who will present her novel The Pagoda. The event is co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Center and Harvard Book Store. Wednesday, March...
...Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like all German arts organizations, the Staatsoper relies heavily on state funds. This year, it will receive about €44 million in subsidies out of a total budget of €66 million. Less than 1% of the opera's money comes from private donations, with...
...succeeds Zhu?who championed his promotion to Premier and to the nine-member politburo Standing Committee?carrying a reputation as a buttoned-down technocrat who lacks not only his mentor's fiery bravado but also his business savvy. Even during his four-year stint as Vice Premier, Wen was rarely called upon to deal with foreigners or promote market economics. Some question whether he has the clear vision and political will to run China's contentious Cabinet while managing a trillion-dollar economy, overseeing the layoffs of millions of angry workers in state companies and forcing another round of market...
...accounts, Wen has traits that have come to define China's latest crop of leaders, including incoming President Hu: a mild demeanor, punctilious organizational skills and competence as an administrator. Those attributes have not always been enough. Zhu promoted Wen to Vice Premier in 1998 and tapped him to run the problem-plagued financial and agricultural sectors. Despite efforts to make the country's banks stop lending to money-losing state enterprises, bad loans continue to mount, jeopardizing the nation's financial system. Agriculture has also fared poorly under Wen, with farmers' incomes stagnating while China's economy grows...