Word: shen
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...Bill of Rights. Variations of "Kill the Imperialist American Pigs" have littered Chinese message boards. Although the American version of the midair collision is available on the Net, most students buy the account that appears in China's state-controlled media. "Of course, I know what happened," says Li Shen, 20, a Russian-studies major whose political-science professor taught him, incorrectly, that the U.S. was nominating the head of the outlawed meditation group, Falun Gong, for a Nobel Peace Prize. "The U.S. plane was in Chinese airspace and deliberately rammed...
...Borders bookstore downtown is a popular gay hangout. Those who prefer to stay in the closet can find refuge in numerous websites and Internet chat groups run by local gay activists. "Singapore is probably the safest place to live in Asia now", says Shen, a gay playwright...
Someone dumped a suitcase outside the Pu Shen Temple. For two days no one paid it much notice until Lin, the temple caretaker, saw something odd: a ghostly, stiffened, protruding hand...
...figure skating, peripherals like music, costumes and makeup are all part of a carefully crafted whole. Case in point: the 1995-96 World Championship in Canada, where skating officials hinted to Shen and Zhao's coach that their 15th-place finish might have had something to do with their musical choice?Yellow River, a traditional Chinese tune. The officials also suggested the pair's choreography, which drew inspiration from Peking opera, was too jerky for Western tastes. And the duo lacked the sexual chemistry that judges love. "We learned quickly that you have to please the judges with something they...
...China's state media and the national skating federation have exhorted the pair to maintain their cultural integ-rity. Shen and Zhao say they don't want to turn their back on their culture, especially during the Olympics, when national pride counts as much as individual glory. But they also want to win. So the pair has kept an Eastern element with their musical choice: Turandot, Italian composer Puccini's rendition of a classic Chinese love story. But they have hired an American choreographer to tame their exuberant style into something more fluid and romantic, and exchanged their demure looks...