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...represent the most important Confucian value, filial piety. In fact, the subjects of this exhibition are a father, his son and grandson - the Qing Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong - who ruled the Middle Kingdom for 133 consecutive years and expanded China even beyond its present-day borders. And the trio weren't even Chinese. They were Manchus, hunters and fishers from north of the Great Wall who successfully vanquished the crumbling Ming Dynasty in 1644 and were greeted with surprising resignation by most of their new subjects. How these foreign rulers used Chinese tradition, culture and ritual to consolidate their...
...Rupert Grint has essentially tapped one emotion (apprehension) and one expression (eyebrows arched in apprehension) for the first three films, and this emotionally roomier role goes to great lengths to develop him as a character. In the titular role, Daniel Radcliffe is again the weakest link among the trio of protagonists. The fault is hardly all his, as the “Ironman”-like magical tournament gives Harry no opportunities to flex his mental muscle in solving them. But Radcliffe is still a stiff actor, and only in the emotionally draining scene at the film?...
...there,” senior forward Charlie Johnson said. “We stop attacking, stop getting it deep in their zone and going after them. We kind of sit back, and when you do that, you start taking penalties.”In Harvard’s last trio of games, four of the eight late goals allowed have been man-advantage strikes.The Crimson was assessed four of its seven penalties Tuesday after building a 4-0 lead, and last Saturday, Harvard committed five of its 10 infractions after going up 6-1.SHOT THROUGH THE HEARTThe Eagles outshot the Crimson...
...night might have seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was: while Caribou’s star is still rising, SFA showed severe signs of age.Caribou, consisting essentially of multi-instrumentalist Dan Snaith and whoever he decides to bring along, was first up. Strikingly professional, the group (a trio at this concert) wasted no time in jumping into this year’s excellent “The Milk of Human Kindness,” which provided a blueprint for extended improvisation. Caribou has often been slapped with the “Intelligent Dance Music” (IDM) label...
...Cynthia Cooper, the Worldcom whistleblower who was part of a Person of the Year trio in 2003, was inclined to find the heroes of the Katrina story: ?The first responders, the victims themselves and the media without whom America would not have learned of their plight.? And, she said, General Russel Honore, who took charge of the rescue effort and restored hope to the people of the Gulf Coast...