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...successes last season, "Gilmore Girls" and "Grosse Pointe," both had a more adult focus. (It also had a hit with "Popstars," the cynically synergistic reality show about the making of girl-band and AOL Time Warner recording artists Eden's Crush; but that franchise could prove a one-hit wonder when musical fads change...
...wonder that the Chinese public was puzzled and outraged when the Americans were released. Beijing banned the kind of protests that had convulsed the capital two years ago after a U.S. bomber hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict. But students wanted revenge, or at least a trial for the U.S. soldiers. The propaganda machine tried its best, touting the U.S.'s "very sorry" pledge. Internet censors worked around the clock again, this time erasing messages that criticized Jiang for capitulating to Washington. But the fervor remained...
...mankind's inexorable march of progress. Indeed, our willingness to crawl into another animal's skin is precisely one of the traits that separates us from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock III amply demonstrate this unleathered animalizing tendency...
...only one-sixteenth Chinese and otherwise Irish, English, Scottish, Spanish, Russian, German, Austrian and Polish. I tell them it's up to them to choose their own identities?just so long as they marry nice Chinese girls. They think I'm kidding. I'm not, really. Who, I wonder, is going to cook them their rice...
...idea sounds a little ridiculous, it is; or at least, I tried to rationalize it as so after the initial panic wore off. But there was still a nagging sense of “what if?” hours later, and I started to wonder if the assessment that 21 is the “end of the road” had any validity. With the minutes ticking rapidly by, had my golden days already begun to escape my grasp...