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...Four students will be grouped together to perform the waltz and they will change partners regularly as soon as one song finishes. This way, the risk of young love will be lowered.' YIN GUOCHEN, an official at China's State General Administration of Sports, which last month announced compulsory dance classes to curb rising rates of childhood obesity, then tacked on rules proscribing puppy love...
...character of Puck most exemplified these deviations. Puck is, arguably, the strongest character in the play, linking the mortals to the fantastic fairy kingdom they are trapped within. Yet, the play featured a split Puck—Puck’s Yin Half, played by Catherine E. Powell ’08, and Puck’s Yang Half, played by R. Scott Lundgren—and thus a weaker one. Though the actors wonderfully portrayed the role, the division was unnecessary and confusing. The choice ruined the continuity of the verses, some of which are the most famous...
...been decades, of course, since any important politician admitted to being a liberal. In a reissue of her book It Takes a Village, Senator Hillary Clinton indulges in yin-yangery worthy of her husband's notable indecision about boxers vs. briefs. "Most of us would describe ourselves as 'middle of the road'--liberal in some areas, conservative in others, moderate in most, neither exclusively pro- nor anti-government," and so on. Senator Barack Obama, in his book The Audacity of Hope, concedes only that his mother was a liberal of the romantic, pre-1967 variety, most emotionally engaged with things...
...actor turned property developer. But Yeung said he had only passed on an envelope from an organized-crime kingpin in Taiwan named Chen (Brother Abalone) Chun-chieh. Prosecutors say the envelope, which contained a photo and information about the victim, made its way to alleged mob boss Lau Yat-yin, accused of having its contents?and $50,000?delivered to two assassins from Hunan province. As the three-day trial wrapped up on Friday?the verdict will be given at a later date?an attorney for Yang Wen, the accused shooter, told reporters his client had admitted killing the tycoon...
...billion Estimated fortune of entrepreneur Zhang Yin, the first woman to top the annual Hurun Report list of China's richest people 40% Proportion of China's wealth held by the richest 10% of its population. The poorest 10% have just 2% of its wealth...