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...past year saw a tightening of the screws on religion, the report said, with Beijing continuing its "campaign of persecution" against the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Protestant church gatherings that didn't register with the government were shut down, and Catholics blocked from contact with the Vatican. Independent clergy were detained and coerced...
Others, however, saw the checks as excessive and ineffective...
...Festival, when Greenbaum and Ingber recognized a void in the Darwinian social order of campus organizations.Within a matter of months, the group was functional, producing seven shows and participating in five more.“They were unequivocally all successful,” says Greenbaum. “We saw there was an implicit desire for comedy on campus. People really wanted to see live comedy.”With their Harvard momentum propelling them, this summer Greenbaum and Ingber set out to establish themselves in New York and managed to secure a weekly show, “Don?...
...lack of color. Takeuchi experimented with different paints before settling on white, and his sculptures actually use their clean, humble, and elegant blankness to represent traditional values of Japanese art, as the artist explained through a translator. Fukai, a gallery owner involved extensively with Japanese art around the world, saw a Web site featuring Takeuchi’s work after he had a solo exhibition in a small museum. She was immediately struck by its beauty, as well as its emotive possibilities. “I like very clean, very sophisticated, modern ceramic sculptures,” she said...
...Jersey. But aside from the miscommunication and tribalism among local, state and federal officials before, during and after the events, none of them have really been all that realistic. Says Lee Clarke, a disaster expert who observed some of the 2005 TOPOFF exercise at Rutgers University: "What we saw was just theater. It was just for show. If people really think this is preparing them for a big event, it's a false sense of security...