Word: provinciale
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Make no mistake, a China slowdown is approaching. Fueled by the excesses of bank lending, the mainland's runaway investment boom threatens balance and stability, and for many months authorities have been moving to bring the overheated economy under control. The objective of China's policymakers is to temper excesses...
At an awesome 153 m tall, the bronze buddha recently unveiled in central China's Henan province seemed destined to become a rare tourist attraction in a place better known for its burgeoning AIDS problem. Yet when thousands of people tried attending the buddha's dedication ceremony last year, police...
Why is the giant monument's birth being greeted with this distinctly un-Buddhist-like anti-p.r. campaign? Local reporters, who obtained access to internal provincial documents, say the statue was built with the approval of Li Changchun, who was Henan's Communist Party secretary in the 1990s before...
As the chronology of the film drives on and Dominique rises from provincial broadcaster to national celebrity, the two ends—a personal biography and a national history—meet with a booming unity. Exiled for a good part of Haiti’s recent history in New...
This leads to great coming-home stories. A fellow Montanan, returning home from an Ivy League school, dropped the newly-reclaimed word “queer” at the family dinner table only to be stared back at with doe-eyed gawks. Perhaps this is Harvard’s...