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...what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling in Hong Kong-Beijing ruled that the next Chief Executive would serve only the remaining two years of Tung's five-year term-less than 1,500 people showed up. "It's not necessary to march anymore," says Ringo Lee, a 28-year-old bank marketing manager who took to the streets last July 1 but is now preoccupied with hunting for a new apartment to buy. Says Professor Joseph Cheng, head of City University of Hong Kong's political science department and a top democratic strategist: "People appreciate...
...what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling in Hong Kong?Beijing ruled that the next Chief Executive would serve only the remaining two years of Tung's five-year term?less than 1,500 people showed up. "It's not necessary to march anymore," says Ringo Lee, a 28-year-old bank marketing manager who took to the streets last July 1 but is now preoccupied with hunting for a new apartment to buy. Says Professor Joseph Cheng, head of City University of Hong Kong's political science department and a top democratic strategist: "People appreciate...
...rockabilly revival for Britain's Channel 4, to be broadcast on New Year's Day. For the 30th-anniversary celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd to Clapton in 1974, joking onstage with his onetime rival. For a night, at least, the two guitarists had obviously decided...
...it’s really on the B-sides, away from label attention, where Morrissey steps up the traditional morbidity and gets away with murder. He bashes Ringo Starr in “It’s Hard To Walk Tall When You’re Small,” offering his most direct attack since he railed against Natalie Merchant after she covered his “Everyday Is Like Sunday.” Like he has so effortlessly throughout his career, he effectively dives into simple depths of misery on the shimmering “My Life...
...course, any aging boomer could spend days playing at matching the Fab Four to his favorite political horses. But only Stills and a few other elite rockers can back up the Starr-Sharpton connection with a quick disclaimer: “I know Ringo very, very well, and they’re a lot alike,” he added...