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...away. It was there that China's unquestioned leader, its emperor without portfolio, enjoyed his family, played his beloved games of bridge and drifted into senescence, dealing with the specters that haunt the capital and the realm. They were ghosts as hoary as the last Emperor of the Ming dynasty who hanged himself on Coal Hill, just east of Deng's home; the students gunned down outside Miliangku by a reactionary government in 1919; the many spirits of Tiananmen; the tens of millions who died of hunger in the Great Leap Forward. And finally there was that most troublesome shadow...
...group hopes to attract more students than it has in the past by offering a more interdisciplinary forum that crosses cultural and ethnic boundaries, said Tin-Ming L. Hsu '00, co-moderator for the discussion groups...
Rosanna Wong Yick-ming, chair of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and chair of the Executive Council, said housing problems--a result of income inequality--may create an uneasy environment...
...Nieman Fellows includes: Cohen; Lee; Read; Robert Blau, an editor/reporter at the Chicago Tribune; Mark Jaffe, an environmental reporter, and Marjorie Valburn, a staff writer, both at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Laura King from the Associated Press Tokyo Bureau; Terri Lichstein, a producer at ABC News; Myra Ming, a senior news producer at KTTV in Los Angeles; Deborah Steward from the Associated Press Moscow Bureau; Robert Vare, an articles editor at The New Yorker; and Paige Wilson, a reporter at The Charlotte Observer
...official portrait approaches a kind of apogee in the Ming dynasty too, but the show contains some striking earlier examples. Witness the anonymous 13th century effigy of the Empress Chabi, wife of the first Yuan Emperor, Shih-tsu, better known to us as Kublai Khan. Did she look like that, this formidable dumpling? Who can know? But it's an image of detached power, the moon face framed in the magnificent red profiles of robe and towering formal headdress...