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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finish their Happy Meals. On Dec. 16, a bomb jolted through the fast-food joint, sending patrons and Big Macs flying. The explosion killed two, injured 27 and stunned the entire city. "Things like this are supposed to happen in dangerous places, like the Middle East," says Liu Wei, a cashier who works in the same shopping complex as the town's only McDonald's. "I never thought it would happen in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bang Goes Stability | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mok-A-Bye Baby | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...Wei Wang ’04, a member of the AAB, said that the drive has yielded over 30 cans of food and about...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Seek Donations To Aid Homeless Shelter | 11/21/2001 | See Source »

...course, some students have a less cerebral attitude to the sculpture. Jennie C. Wei ‘03 finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious grey figure, confessing that “I’m partially attracted to it”. Many laugh as they walk by, exclaiming like Garwin Y. Chen ‘03, “how weird!”. A few, like Emily Ludmir ‘03, question the overall effect of a Statue of Liberty likeness now sadly contorted and misshapen by shrunken balloons. Ludmir worries that “it almost...

Author: By A. E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: But is it Art? | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

...Civil liberties are China's Achilles' heel. By winning the Games, it will face more scrutiny on this front than ever. The chairman of Beijing's bid committee, Wang Wei, also raised expectations by promising that a Beijing Games would "improve all facets of life in China, including education, health and human rights." But the way China conducted its bid belied such talk. Just two weeks before the vote, the party celebrated its 80th birthday by ordering all cinemas to show propaganda films with titles like Wedding Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Bags It | 7/26/2001 | See Source »

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