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...Chinese history, literature and food. Yet Qiu also adeptly follows the genre's conventions and, when Inspector Chen's investigation gains momentum, the mystery of the women in the red dresses predictably returns to a buried crime from the Cultural Revolution: the sins of the nation's past revisited upon the present. Already, Qiu says, he's at work on the next novel in the series, which will be set at least partially in Beijing. For both Chen and Qiu, the mystery of China's modern social revolution remains unsolved...
...With the New Year upon us, I am left with a difficult decision: either go back to work and keep my staff employed or stay dark and allow 80 people ... to lose their jobs. CONAN O'BRIEN, late-night TV host, on his plan to resume programming on Jan. 2 after two months of honoring the Hollywood writers' strike...
...interesting thought, and one that the Class of 1967 may seize upon. In an open letter last week to Faust, 13 members of that class expressed their disappointment at “the apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body...
...testified Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court that Purdy raped her on her first day at Harvard in September 2005. Like the victim who filed charges against Purdy, Hale said she was raped during a massage appointment. After Hale injured her back while moving furniture, she and her mother stumbled upon About Hair while looking for a masseuse. An employee said there were no massage therapists available, but Purdy said he could fit her in, according to Hale. “When I went back [for the appointment], I was alone in the basement of an empty store with...
...very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good performance in her more intense scenes, such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked to the fact that English is not the mother tongue of this German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz’s flat depiction...