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...clamor for transparency may create an opportunity for Hu, a career bureaucrat with liberal tendencies, to push for the kinds of sweeping political reforms that party elders have long resisted. "This is his chance to grab the support of the people and stand up on his own," says Bao Tong, a former senior party official who was purged after the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. "China can keep living in a black box, or it can live in the sunshine. If he can't take advantage of this situation and move into the sun now, then when...
...after Leslie's death, his longtime lover, Daffy Tong Hok-tak, said that the star had tried killing himself with sleeping pills last November, and that he had been seriously depressed for 20 years. Twenty years! Back to the time of his first hit album; all through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing...
...museum is sending Shi-Tong T. Hsieh, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, to Guam to study and collect fish...
...MALAYSIAN BILLIONAIRE. The biggest winner to date in Indian gaming is surely Lim Goh Tong, the 85-year-old Chinese-Malaysian businessman who bankrolled Foxwoods in northeastern Connecticut. Foxwoods, the country's largest gaming venue, is actually a constellation of five casinos about 10 miles down the road from the Mohegan Sun. On an average day, 40,000 people pass through what was a quiet, mostly rural patch of New England...
...stop 28 of them being sold in the first two days. The new store - a mix of marble and plywood - is the first of a design concept that Toledano hopes to roll out in Monaco, Hong Kong and Milan over the next two years. And some minor celebs - Pete Tong, Bella Freud - were at last week's opening party...