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Deng Xiaoping has left his successors with as delicate a balancing act as did these statesmen of a century ago. China now, as then, is a colossal country with a huge population, difficult to control from the center, uneven in economic growth and development, with wealth concentrated on the eastern coast. Regional interests and power bases are strong; there are massive disparities of income, and a decreasing willingness to contribute a requisite flow of taxes to the center in Beijing, since that center is often seen as both corrupt and ineffective. Periodic assertions of central police power can cow citizens...
...intelligence) has risen. But 1 out of every 10 children three years old and younger lives in "extreme poverty"--at or below 50% of the federal poverty level. And the well-being of many others is threatened by such social changes as the rise of single-parent households, the uneven quality of day care, the decline of communities and, some would argue, the push to reform the welfare system...
Most brand-name CDs have been uneven compilations of previously released songs by big-name stars (Michael Bolton for Victoria's Secret) or up-and-comers (folk singer Gillian Welch for Starbucks), selected because their style fits the image the company is trying to project. The CDs can be big business, luring customers who shun record stores. Some of Victoria's Secret's titles have sold 1 million copies...
What does a princess do after happily-ever-after? Oksana Baiul of Ukraine was Cinderella. The poor little orphan who slept at a run-down rink, practicing on uneven ice to qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. There she defeated the sport's two dueling ice queens and was suddenly royalty herself. Baiul, at 16, was embraced by a worldwide audience hungry for miracles and was beloved by Americans who were willing to pay handsomely to see success stories. Baiul went to America to become perhaps the most highly paid newcomer in professional figure skating (with...
...Arriving uneven, never healed, gasping and yet certainly undanceable, unjumpable, and unslamable, the songs tend to root audience members, who are used to being able to recline in their sweet darkness (or their lover's sweet arms!), to a double-footed position on the floor, nearly impassive, as if unwittingly having looked upon a semi-hand-some, but helplessly stray, masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...