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This trend once alarmed China's Communist leadership. In 1993, the government banned public Christmas celebrations (as well as those for Easter and April Fools' Day). These days, the government has backed off and sees benefit in consumer-led economic growth. That translates into blinking lights and plastic wreaths for...
It was both a symbol and a symptom of the revolution that rippled across Ukraine last week. On Thursday, as the presenter of state-controlled UT1's main morning news program was updating viewers on the Central Electoral Commission's decision to declare Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of...
Keys believes that the secret to educational improvement is getting adults more involved in their kids' schools. But he admits that making every PTA meeting is tough for parents who juggle two or three jobs. So in 2001, Keys, along with educational software company EPOS, launched Helping Involve Parents (HIP...
There wasn’t a dry eye Saturday night in the dimly lit Winthrop House JCR at the performance of Whose Wife is it Anyway?—the entire crowd was brought to tears from side-splitting laughter. The talented young actors who make up theattractive all-student...
In 2002, for the wistful, erotic novella The Dying Animal, Kamoun even spent six days sitting on the floor of Roth's New York City apartment, typing in French as he paced and read the text aloud. "She wanted to hear the cadences," says Roth, "and I wanted to know...