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...Ying Zhang and Jing Ke must decide between ambition and conscience. But though all the right ingredients are assembled, the equation somehow fails to add up. The complexity and tension inherent to the characters aren't played out to their full potential, resulting in a certain degree of dramatic sag. Without strong characterizations, the plot founders, and the focal trio is all too easily eclipsed by the bombastic military hullabaloo around them. The biggest problem is that Li Xuejian, for better or worse, gives a truly confused portrait of the emperor, alternating between unabashed cruelty and childish buffoonery. His emperor...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Epic Bloodshed in Ancient China | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst of Times | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Represented in the conference were a variety of labor leaders, from traditional unions like the AFL-CIO to groups like health care workers and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Labor Leaders Convene at Harvard | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...SAG Board Member R. Eugene Boggs '68 said groups like his--Hollywood's most famous union--is sometimes overlooked in discussions about American labor...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Labor Leaders Convene at Harvard | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...boomers sag toward retirement, many employers also see such programs as a way to eke a few more years of productivity from their graying work force. To cut back on sprains and strains on its bottling lines, Coors has introduced stretch breaks, hired ergonomics experts to redesign machines, built on-site gyms and even corporate health clinics, where employees and their families can be treated for any routine medical problem, work related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Profits | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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