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...Chinese Communist Party Congress all goes to plan, President Jiang Zemin steps aside for current No. 2 Hu Jintao but installs his protégé Zeng Qinghong as vice president...
...sense of wonder with overly bright photography, director Iain Softley quickly draws in his audience with an intriguing opening to his film. Spacey stands with a beatific smile on his face, framed by the light within the bustle of a train station. An alien from distant planet K-PAX, Prot (Spacey) has arrived in Manhattan to experience Earth...or is he merely delusional...
...praise heaped upon the first generation of Japanese designers, only rarely has the legacy of avant-garde experimentation been passed down. Rei Kawakubo's promising protégé Junya Watanabe is one of the few who lives up to expectations. He showed a futuristic punk look in Paris that most critics loved though it struck some as retro. Even Miyake's Takizawa, one of the most successful of the younger generation, has not strayed far from the established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face...
...43rd President was huddling with the 41st. Bush gave no hint, even to some of his closest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protégé. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand...
...what about his co-defendant and one-time protégé Shyne? Unlike Puffy, Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, was found guilty on charges of assault, weapons possession and reckless endangerment and is facing the possibility of up to 25 years in prison. When a well-wisher interrupts our conversation to congratulate Puffy and express his concern for Shyne, Puffy says only this: "I'm praying...