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DIED. ZURAB ZHVANIA, 41, influential, reform-minded Prime Minister of Georgia and close ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili; of carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently from a space heater in the apartment of a political acquaintance, who also died; in Tbilisi, Georgia. The bizarre event was a shock--but not unheard of in Georgia, where central heating is scarce and 45 others have died from carbon monoxide in the past three years. A key economic adviser to the President, Zhvania was a leader in the 2003 popular uprising that ousted President Eduard Shevardnadze...
...didn't look California? Here's what Katherine De Mille said of her: "She has the world's most beautiful figure and a face like a Ming princess, and when she opens her mouth out comes Los Angeles Chinatown sing-sing girl and every syllable is a fresh shock." Was Anna May the first Valley girl...
...Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald...
Even with second semester in full swing, students who leave campus early to study abroad may have to contend with more than just culture shock. Of the 91 students who are spending their spring semester abroad, some are forced to take their finals in absentia...
...followed you all the way across the ocean,” she wrote in an e-mail. “But in a way it helped. It blends Harvard with your new destination a bit, so you don’t feel the full brunt of culture shock right...