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...When I returned to Beijing in 1999 after six years in Berkeley, California, a Chinese reader scolded me for switching to English. "What's the point of laboring 10 years to write a novel in English when you could have published more books for starved Chinese readers in your mother tongue and let the translators do the rest of the work? Nowadays, authors can get famous much more easily in China than in America." He is somewhat right. The bookstores in China are always packed, while the average Borders bookstore in America is the most peaceful place in town. Compared...
Mona Lisa Smile stars Julia Roberts as a free-spirited and idealistic Berkeley graduate who comes to the conservative all-women’s college in the 1950s to teach art history. Her unconventional teaching methods both inside and outside the classroom inspire her traditional-minded students, including Joan (Julia Stiles) and Betty (Kirsten Dunst), to challenge their pre-determined futures as they come...
Betto Arcos, a professional DJ with Berkeley, Calif.-based Pacifica Radio, complemented the event with Latin musical stylings...
...ambitious thinking has led to a boom in cooking classes in schools. These updated versions of home ec teach children who have been weaned on fast food about grains and vegetables they may never have encountered at home. Alice Waters, the chef of Chez Panisse, the celebrated restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., that builds its menus around seasonal ingredients, has launched an "edible school yard," where students learn to plant, harvest and cook organic fruits and vegetables...
BEST PROOF THAT LIBERALISM IS DEAD--OR THAT THE YUPPIE QUEST FOR A CHEAPER LATTE TRUMPS POLITICS Voters in Berkeley, Calif., rejected a ballot measure that would have required coffee sold in the city to be organic or purchased from farmers for at least...