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China's central plains city of Ruzhou is nondescript in most ways, known to the rest of the country mainly as a source of prized decorative porcelain produced during the graceful Song dynasty eight centuries ago. Last week, the city's place in the nation's consciousness acquired a stain that may take years to fade. At midnight, a 21-year-old named Yan Yanming reportedly entered the dormitory of Ruzhou's No. 2 High School and slipped into the rooms where male students slept. Yan slashed some students' throats, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Others he stabbed...
ALICIA KEYS THE BOOK: Tears for Water, due Nov. 8 THE BUZZ: The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter shares 27 poems from her personal journals CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Golden sunshine's/ peeking through the grayness of the sky/ Soon it will be in full view/ And rain won't stain your eye THE AUDIENCE: Teen girls who keep on fallin' for their piano teachers...
...Tuesday, jurors got their first glimpse of the light-blue jersey Colono wore on the night of his death and the large musty-brown blood stain running down its left side...
That little speech should tell you three things about Roth. First, he never stops working. He's coming off a millennial hot streak that includes three astonishing books--Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral and The Human Stain. For another writer, those would have constituted a distinguished career all by themselves. Second, he is constantly surprising--never forget (and perhaps he sometimes wishes we would) that this is the guy who wrote a novella about a man who literally turned into a gigantic breast. Third, Roth sees the world as a tangle of hypotheticals and what-ifs, of counterlives and forking...
...Hawke-Keating years is that Latham will be forced to eat up much of this campaign pleading the case that Labor can be trusted with managing the money. Howard and Costello can continue spending taxpayer funds - outbidding Labor on health spending or tax cuts - and not carry the stain of profligacy. Appearing as a pale imitation of his former self, Latham signed a low-interest-rate guarantee a few days into the campaign. The stunt reeked of the forlorn Crean years and brought gleeful ridicule from the government. Who will have the discipline to make the central bank...