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...very excited to become a member of a community that has such a rich collection of dynamic and talented individuals in one place,” Wu said...
...idea of presenting this story as dance music came from an article Byrne read some years ago that discussed the former beauty queens reputation for clubhopping in the '70s and early '80s. He'd been interested in what he calls "the bubble worlds of the rich and powerful" for a while, and asked Cook to work with him on a set of songs that would be both about and in the musical forms associated with Imelda's particular bubble world. Here Lies Love was first performed in concert in 2006; Byrne had initially hoped to stage it in dance clubs...
...recent days some cynics mumbled that the Masters isn't a real test of Woods's future viability, because it is the golf equivalent of a cathedral - rich in ceremony and decorum. Surely the kid gloves would be donned in a place where young men wear blazers to sweep gravel from the walkways, and ushers politely guide patrons to the urinals, and refreshments are cheaper than fast-food, because the usual sports venue price gouging is considered poor manners. Hecklers could never get through the gate because Masters tickets aren't sold to the public; they're inherited, like bone...
...internal forces emerges as a result of China's success and not always because of what we do or don't do. It's an instinct that won't disappear in the face of U.S. concessions or growing Chinese wealth. If the U.S. keeps waiting for China to get rich enough or developed enough to buy easily into the American model of the world, then it will wait forever...
...turn. He shielded business monopolies owned by friends and family and cracked down on journalists who pried into allegations of corruption - all the while, Kyrgyzstan's economy floundered, its Soviet-era industry and agriculture withering away while tens of thousands quit the country for low-paying jobs in resource-rich Kazakhstan or Russia. In February 2005, after a round of allegedly rigged elections, popular sentiment boiled over and precipitated mass protests the following month dubbed the "Tulip Revolution" that saw Akayev step down and leave for exile in Moscow...