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...then complain when they start to believe they can fly. Jonathan Lowe Tucson, Arizona, U.S. A Fan's Devotion Michael Elliott's essay "Hopelessly Devoted" [June 6], on being an obsessive fan of the Liverpool Football Club, reminded me of how it felt to be blindly devoted to a boy band. I had the group's posters hung all over the walls of my room when I was little and played their tapes over and over again. I never understood what they were singing about (the pain of being unable to get the love of a girl or how much...
...summer scream season. In April a teenager and her 11-year-old cousin were stranded for more than an hour atop the new Insanity ride above the Las Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the fastest yet, was shut down last week after...
...truth, overtly political films, like some of Zhang's work, still have no chance of being screened in China without undergoing major cuts by the censorship board. But Xu's avoidance of political fare doesn't mean she is content to churn out the clichéd boy-meets-girl comedies that are the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Her next two projects will tackle serious topics. One is a Tang-dynasty drama that she says will demonstrate that "court life is no different from street life." The other is an examination of post-9/11 America...
...many ways, Li embodies the Chinese dream: poor country boy works hard, becomes the only one from his school to go to college and makes it in the big city. But Li is concerned about those who didn't make it: the 100 million rural inhabitants--including his own parents--who have fled exorbitant taxes and dwindling agricultural prices and flooded the cities in search of work. Those migrants are what Li calls "ghosts in the city." "They have built the cities that China is proud of," he says, "but they are barely treated as human beings...
...police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping the man's two children. Sokhom told police he shot Michalik to put pressure on the authorities and because the boy was crying...