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...Tong, a member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Tong, a rock star in China with chart-toping vocals, was also the star of Tuesday’s performance. He stole the show whenever he sang or played his sheng—a mouth organ made of a ring of bamboo pipes, looking, as one audience member said, like “an organ and a church steeple put together.” The rehearsal ended with a composition by the modern Chinese musician Zhou Long, set to some Chinese poems about drinking too much. Here, the HRO joined...
...than church attendence or Bible reading. This is novel, and if it's true, a lot of political strategists will be up late digesting the Baylor numbers. But for the average reader, the big drawback of the study at present is that its categories do not have a natural ring to them. It was easy to understand "Presbyterian" or "frequent churchgoer." It's a lot harder to figure out what Baylor means by its Critical God, who "does not interact with the world. Nevertheless... still observes the world and views the current state of the world unfavorably." If you walked...
...gore-happy gang owes a lot of its recent good fortune to Whannell and Wan, who ushered in the latest iteration of big-screen bloodlust with the first Saw movie in 2004, just as eerie Japanese horror movies like The Ring were peaking. Whannell was a Melbourne, Australia, TV host who thought he had a brain tumor. His film-school buddy, Wan, was unemployed. "I would have done anything to be healthy again," says Whannell, now 29, who, it turned out, was actually just suffering from stress headaches. When he felt better, he wrote the script for Saw, in which...
However, it didn’t ring of condescension but served as a common recognition of something amusing. Everyone was truly laughing with the debater, and not at him. And in the great playground of collegiate political debate, maybe that’s the best we can hope...
...vote. “He certainly has a chance,” said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a non-profit research organization specializing in U.S.-Latin America relations. “The whole question is forming enough coalitions with enough groups to ring up the votes.” Birns said Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government’s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former Marxist who ruled the country in the 1980s, could ally with Venezulean President Hugo Chavez. “Even though Ortega doesn?...