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...skillful execution. Meanwhile, the Americans - who weren't favored for a medal after the withdrawal of twins Morgan and Paul Hamm, two of the team's top gymnasts - found themselves, for a moment, in contention for the silver. But a 12.775 fumble on the pommel horse by Kai Wen Tan cost the U.S. team a possible second-place finish. The team went home with a bronze, and the defending champion Japanese claimed the No. 2 spot. "I feel ashamed that we didn't win the gold," said Koki Sakamoto. "But I am proud that we tried to the very...
...Police investigating Monday's heist suspect that two robbers were involved; one is thought to have dark hair, tan skin and a local accent, but no witnesses have yet come forward regarding the other...
...have any plans to integrate Chinese music into your classical Western canon? -Li You, Apex, N.C.Recently I've worked with a few great Chinese composers. Tan Dun had this concept of a kung-fu piano concerto--lots of extreme finger movement and using elbows and palms to play. It was like watching Jackie Chan fight...
...Industry. That problem has left some officials uncertain how to proceed, especially in countries such as Vietnam, which joined the World Trade Organization last year and has been opening up its economy to market forces. Vietnam suffers from the highest inflation in Asia; the country's Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, recently acknowledged during an interview with TIME that "promptly responding to adverse impacts of the global economy is a relatively new matter...
When Nguyen Tan Dung became Prime Minister of Vietnam two years ago, the former central bank governor was widely viewed as a progressive who would continue to drive the communist country's remarkable transition from moribund planned economy to a booming capitalist one. But this year, Vietnam's outlook has dimmed. While GDP growth remains strong at more than 7%, the inflation rate has rocketed to 25%, there have been a large number of outbreaks of labor unrest and the stock market has plunged by nearly two-thirds since January, making it the worst-performing in the world...