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...quickly adds that "most Chinese folk musicians make a lot less"). But self-advancement appears not to be a major priority. "When we're abroad, we try to think of ourselves not as individuals but as representatives of China," says Zhang, brimming with the winning patriotism of a socialist poster girl. The band's next stop: the U.S. Wang is hoping Americans will succumb to the group's siren charms when a U.S. debut album, Eastern Energy-which features a cover of Coldplay's Clocks-is released in August. "I'm a gambler," says Wang, "and I'm betting again...
...campus groups and left-leaning political persuasions, was the beginning of what we hope will be a continuing trend towards cooperation between the various progressive groups on campus. Organized by groups ranging from the Harvard College Democrats to the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice to the Harvard Socialist Alternative, the rally demonstrated what must be done—on a much larger scale—to win back the White House...
...Karnataka, whose capital Bangalore is considered the epicenter of India's high-tech boom. There, the BJP won handsomely - the incumbent, of course, was a Congress man. Congress also lost its control of Kerala province, not to the BJP but to the Communists. Indeed, the parties of the socialist Left made their best showing in more than a decade...
...support of that socialist Left on which Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party will have to depend to muster a governing coalition. But Mrs. Gandhi made clear on Friday that the economic liberalization program overseen by Vajpayee was, in fact, launched over a decade ago by her husband, and her government would continue on the same track of opening India to the world economy. She may, of course, have been anxious to reassure India's stock market, which dropped to a four-year low on the news of her victory, but Congress is committed to a broadly similar economic program...
...Simon & Schuster; 323 pages), James Chace, former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, points to that year's presidential election--a four-way fight that also involved Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Socialist Eugene Debs--as the event that led to the present-day alignment of the two major parties. Roosevelt's eventual third-party candidacy drew off Republican progressives, leaving the G.O.P. in the hands of its pro-business wing, which rules it still. Although Roosevelt cowed Wilson, by splitting the Republican vote he made a Democratic victory inevitable. But Roosevelt's campaign positions on monopolies also forced Wilson into more...