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...complaints of China's petitioners are a stark reminder of the lingering social ills confronting the nation as President Hu Jintao wraps up his first year in office. The most common grievances involve corrupt local officials, land seized by authorities and developers to fuel China's property boom, unpaid wages from cash-strapped state-owned enterprises, and industrial accidents at unregulated private factories. Some cases are doubtless spurious, but most aren't. Even Zhou Zhanshun, head of the State Letters and Visits Bureau, admitted to the state-run Xinhua News Agency in January that 80% of the complaints are reasonable...
...reinvention. And they consistently have machines one-upping humans at their game (the programmed rhythm in “Are You That Somebody,” too inhumanly angular and precise for a real drummer’s arms, being my favorite example) while the actual performers vocalize in stark contrast, like any good pop star. Point being that Tim may have started to run out of new ways to augment his friends. (The latest Missy album speaks to that.) If his well does run dry, it’ll be for the same reason DJ Premier is stuck...
...very start of his Meet the Press interview, Bush said, "I'm a war President." Winning the "war" that he declared has been this President's stated mission, and it is how he will be judged. From the days immediately following Sept. 11, the rhetoric has been stark and bellicose. "You're either with us or against us," he warned early on. Any country that "harbors or supports terrorism will be regarded as a hostile regime." But Bush's actions, except for Iraq, haven't matched the dire nature of the threat described-and his rhetoric has betrayed a moral...
...intellectual élite. Soon after his move to Spain, his work changed radically. By about 1600, in another version of Christ driving the traders and money changers from the sacred precincts, El Greco's borrowings have been transmuted; figures are distorted, gestures are balletic and exaggerated, and contrasts are stark. Though his new style departs from tradition, it also looks back. His flattened space, with figures up close to the picture's surface, is influenced both by Mannerism and by his icon-painting past. But there is a political backdrop as well. Threatened by the rise of Protestantism, the Catholic...
That came in stark contrast to the final 9:39 of the first half, when the Tigers outscored the Crimson...