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Eurovision, which most famously gave the world ABBA, is a much-anticipated annual pop music competition with contestants representing countries from Iceland to Turkey, from Morocco to Israel. No one takes the contest more seriously than the Russians. Last year, for example, they sneered when Ireland's representative in the...
Secretly, society has a fascination with the enigmatic, dynamic, and unreported events of the all-boy prep school. The HRDC’s newest drama, “The History Boys,” rips this mystery wide-open with a witty, yet tense, tale of eight English schoolboys as...
So how is a priest supposed to figure out that an exorcism is warranted? How do they judge who is and who isn't a worthy candidate? The ritual stipulates that there are three signs that the priest has to look for: abnormal strength, the ability to understand unknown languages...
But there is still pain - particularly among developers, and the big banks that financed them - because of just how overbuilt urban China has become. Ren Zhiqiang, the Chairman of the Beijing Huayuan Group, a large developer, estimates that it may take to two to three years to work off the...
For the Chinese government - and indeed, the global economy - a gathering deflationary bust in real estate is a big problem. So-called fixed asset investment accounted for 40% of China's GDP last year - an extraordinarily high figure - and real estate, both commercial and residential, accounted for about one-fifth...