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...Congress seems assured: Hu, 64, will be re-elected to a second five-year term as party General Secretary. The former hydraulic engineer's sense of China's future is rooted in his own experiences. Though he came from a moderately prosperous family of tea merchants, Hu was thrust into the turmoil of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution soon after he graduated from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 1964. Along with millions of others, he was sent to the countryside to "learn from the masses." After a year spent carrying bricks at a construction site in Guizhou province...
...says Tanna. "Unlike China, we've always been surrounded by a sense of luxury. We've had the maharajas who've grown up with Louis Vuitton trunks and jewelry made exclusively for them by Cartier and Boucheron and all that. There's been no cultural revolution that's been thrust upon us. It's not as if we're seeing our first red lipstick and going out and buying it in hundreds of thousands. India is getting richer. At a very micro level, I think every Indian woman who is now financially independent is realizing the joys of guilt-free...
...Crimson’s season opener, and he ended the season as the most productive quarterback in the Ivy League, with the second most total yards by a Harvard signal-caller in a single season in team history. But last year, a five-game suspension to start the campaign thrust an unprepared O’Hagan into the fray on Week 6, and he ended the season where he began it—on the bench. On Saturday against Holy Cross, however, the senior quarterback once again benefited from the full slew of spring, summer, and preseason workouts, serving...
...Football Championship Subdivision. Eh…I-AA. When Appalachian State knocked off a fifth-ranked Michigan team in Ann Arbor two weeks ago, and the pundits immediately started ranking it among the greatest upsets in the sport’s history, the ugly sister of college football was thrust into the spotlight...
Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is followed by the camera's point of view shifting 90º or 180º--geometrically groovy but quickly predictable. Same goes for his stories, which rely on gifted people behaving goofily. Anderson has the attitude for comedy but not the aptitude. His films are airless. Humor under glass...