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...about my stories on TIME's website or my posts on our China Blog. Some of the criticism can be pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever as one of cold blooded, Hitler...
Nine colleges have offered Sarah Simon, of Wellesley, Mass., a spot in their class of 2012: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Vassar and Williams. But she's a dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School...
...Paul Simon Once a partner in one of folk music's greatest duos, he is a co-founder of the Children's Health Fund...
...Wire’ is a world where people are worth less. People are commodities. Capitalism has been the god,” David Simon said on Friday. These qualities sum up his hit HBO show “The Wire,” a chronicle of American city life set in Baltimore and, in particular, the open-air drug markets of the its most impoverished areas. At the Institue of Politics, Simon and his co-panelists discussed about the true-to-life themes of the show, including urban violence and the deterioration of inner-city schools, as experts from academia...
...changes? JTF: The script for “The Wire” was painstakingly written. There was no expectation of ad-libbing. Every episode took many rewrites; the script was very precise. As far as casting went, the actors on the show were very professional. [Creator David Simon and Ed Burns] trusted the actors to bring those skills to bear. Casting is the biggest area of control the producers have. Once you’ve been cast, then you’re expected to put your own individual imprint on the role.In the fourth season classroom scenes, only the four...