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He came from a family of political bigwigs, so it was no surprise that Democrat Parren Mitchell became Maryland's first black U.S. Congressman. Among the experiences that helped prepare him for his eight terms in Washington, where he championed civil rights and was a founding member of the Congressional...
For a Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA...
"There's always a surprise film that wins a prize," French critic Michel Ciment said last night, "and a film that surprises by not winning." The unexpected winner, of the Grand Prix du Jury (second place), was Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, yet another parable of grieving and reconciliation...
After graduating from high school in 1998, Jesse put jazz aside and pursued computer engineering in community-college classes in Aurora, where he also worked at an insurance company. But he abandoned the college path in 2005 to enlist in the Marines. The decision took his family by surprise. Jesse...
By now he has also become one of the most popular, with major outdoor commissions around the U.S. and throughout the world. And the work itself, without ever betraying its principles or playing to the crowd, has become plainly, inescapably, pleasurable. Serra's success these days takes even him by...