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...Songs in A Minor is the musical surprise of the summer. Keys, a classically trained pianist, describes her sound as "Beethoven meets Wu-Tang, with a lot of soul." Besides reaching record buyers, she also grabbed Prince's attention with a cover of his B-side chestnut How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? "He invited me down to perform at this festival he just finished putting on in Minneapolis," says Keys. "Before he performed, he said, 'I just want to tell you I love your rendition.'" Then she went and ruined the moment. "I have a little...
...despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly cheaper than the US$25 obstructed-view outfield grandstand seats at Fenway Park. The favorable $1.50 Canadian-for-U.S. exchange rate enhances the visitors’ ability to acquire their respective hedonistic pleasures—families expose their children to French-Canadian tourism and culture, young couples wine and dine on the St. Lawrence waterfront and young males sample the infamous wares of St. Catherine?...
...gritty realism, so in the early 1990s he spent several years slaving over a set of searing social commentaries. But not a single one made it past the skittish Chinese censors and, most distressing to Feng, no one in Elite film circles bothered to back him up. Making a U-turn, Feng turned to directing television sitcoms and eventually worked his way up to big-screen comedies. "I learned my lesson," he says. "I'd rather make fun movies for one billion people than serious ones for a small group of cultural critics...
...Kudos to the U of M for figuring out what hundreds of American employers still can?t quite grasp: Even if they work the same job, for the same hours, with the same experience, women in the U.S. are on average still paid less than...
...film is opening at a sensitive moment in Japanese-U.S. relations. The recent alleged rape of a Japanese woman on Okinawa by a U.S. serviceman once again sparked an outcry against the continued presence of 47,000 U.S. troops in the country. Further, for many Japanese citizens, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler, by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. News accounts of the film's U.S. premiere in Pearl Harbor focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier...