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...fellow Skater Leah Poulos, 24, herself a medal possibility at 500 meters. "When he wants to be good at something, he doesn't stop." Rounding out the key contenders are U.S. ice dancing champions Colleen O'Connor and Jim Millns. The top American pairs duo-Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner-won't win a medal, but will skate with a flourish...
Chen has a weakness for these military analogies. Perhaps the correspondence between war, with its manipulation of armies, and music, with its manipulation of tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly disciplined form of self-defense. Chen claims to have acquired the self-control and profound concentration that he brings to his conducting. The bare hands are the weapons both for self-defense and for conducting, and Chen has trained his to function "with their own mind, and yet without mind...
...Tai Chi is one of the few conscious ties that Chen maintains with China. Although he still has relatives there, he has little desire to return to a country fundamentally different from he one he left. His musical training is thoroughly Western and he has very little knowledge of or curiosity about Chinese music...
...military dictator]?" Does sukiyaki need soy sauce? Of course Blackthorne signs on as Toranaga's henchman, while still more rivalries congeal the already thickening plot: Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit hara-kiri somewhere along the first exposition-laden chapters will get fair value for their money. Shōgun is, all by itself, a relatively...
...spokesman Tai said. "If the police arrive, we have several contingency plans. We are ready...