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...people could agree on anything. A couple of ministers noted that drastic measures were probably needed. Everyone ate mangoes. And then, finally, they made the day's only decision: to go home. "Nobody addressed the economic problems. They couldn't figure out what to discuss," says committee member Norman Yin, a professor at National Chengchi University. "You could say there was some confusion...
...amalgam of religions and exercises that Chinese have known for centuries. Practitioners meditate during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle of his forehead...
Rubin and Summers spent over six years together in the White House. Podesta said Summers would accompany Rubin t o management meetings each day. “We understood that they complemented each other. They were a bit yin and yang,” Podesta says...
...section of your mind in some manner, though it may not leave every part entirely sated. Fisher credited this “alternation of heavy and light material” in the film to the Taoist concept of “tai chi—the cosmic dialogue of yin and yang.” Indeed, he said, many of the film’s insights have their groundings in Eastern forms of philosophy and religion: “The Eastern systems of thought are most consistent and practical in their approaches to existential and epistemologic questions...like...
...Jiang spends his working day balancing the yin and yang of order and chaos; modernization and stability; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; reformers and hard-liners. But the president who turns 75 this summer is due to retire 18 months from now, and the jockeying for influence over his succession is already fierce. Jiang wants continuity for his legacy - rebuilding China's international standing in the decade following the massacre in Tiananmen Square - but he's having a hard time of it. Hard-liners have won a number of the preliminary bouts, shutting out Jiang's picks for top party positions...