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...best tournaments ever," according to tournament director Annie Yang '95. Yang said several members of the Yale team had told her that "this was the first organizing school they had seen get a standing ovation...
When East meets West in movies, everything can get blurred: male and female, sex and love, performance and reality. In two new films about China, the gender lines are so tangled that it's hard to tell yin from yang. But it's easy to tell hit from miss. Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige's Chinese film that won a top prize at Cannes this year before being briefly suppressed by the Chinese government, is a gorgeous, galvanizing epic with starmaking turns. M. Butterfly, the David Cronenberg film of David Henry Hwang's Broadway play, fumbles its romantic and political...
...most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill -- and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February...
...soon everyone realized it was simply unrealistic to try to build a microprocessor. We were further discouraged when told that last year some people did undertake such an endeavor, but the team just "disintegrated after a while," according to the instructor, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Woodward Yang, who has taught the course since last spring...
...close of the 17-day National People's Congress now under way, Jiang Zemin, 67, the current party general secretary, is scheduled to become the fifth President of the People's Republic. Some observers expect that example to spread down the ranks. Coincidentally, when Jiang takes over from retiring Yang Shangkun, 86, it will mark the first postrevolutionary Chinese government without a single prominent veteran of the famed 1934-35 Long March led by Mao. The passage of time has made that separation at last irreversible...