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...Wolf's Inside is not the first book to contain such images. In 2007 Hong Kong photojournalist Vincent Yu published Our Home, Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006 - a work that included a collection of formal portraits of estate residents in their cramped dwellings, albeit in black and white. It is hard to see what, if anything, Wolf does differently. His images are not the result of an intimate rapport between photographer and subject, but of an almost unbridgeable distance: the sitters are showing their best face to a foreign visitor, with many of them smiling for the camera. The result...
...screeches in the fake Gap ad is unable to contain himself because I had just told him I liked his sweater...
...China heads into 2010, its economic policymakers will have to juggle how to control the property market for consumers like Chen without debilitating it or harming the overall economic recovery. "While the authorities aim to contain property-price increases, they are highly mindful of the importance of stability in the sector, as it bears upon consumption and employment," Jing Ulrich, managing director of China equities for JPMorgan, wrote in a research note. It's a tricky balancing act. But it's a task the other countries still struggling to emerge from the global downturn would envy...
There is also a fair amount of urban angst, represented by the dancing of Graffiti Pete (Jose-Luis Lopez), who does not appear often enough considering his talent. The stage itself seems almost too small to contain the enthusiasm of the characters and the excellent choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. The movements of the ensemble cast, even the most minor characters, are carefully orchestrated...
...their armored vehicle; again, critics derided stipulations in the SOFA treaty that kept the soldiers from being tried in South Korean courts. In 2008, more heated demonstrations broke out in Seoul after the government allowed South Korea to receive certain U.S. beef imports that many were concerned might contain mad-cow disease. Protesters alleged the administration of President Lee Myung Bak was protecting its alliance with the U.S. at the expense of its own citizens' health...