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...traditions of the Chinese nation." Oded Shenkar, a China expert at Ohio State University, says: "With a single move, they transfer a chunk of the highly profitable financial-news business from foreign to domestic hands" and "tighten control over the news ... They manage to kill two birds with one stone...
...Well, if it's a conspiracy, it's an inside job. After all, women love them as much as men - maybe more. Even at 5'10", I can't resist high heels. So I'll wait for the Oliver Stone movie exposing the whole Jimmy Choo/Manolo Blahnik axis of heels scheme...
...arts center she created nine years ago as part of her effort to shape the public memory of her son--to "cleanse the stain," as she puts it, from his legacy. Every summer a throng of kids comes to the center, which sits off a busy road in Stone Mountain, Ga., to learn dance, creative writing and music...
...Perkinses repeatedly asked to send Luke back to a district nearby where they felt the teachers were better equipped to handle autistic students. Julie Perkins says she begged Thompson's special-ed director to transfer her son. "I was in tears, and she was a stone wall," Julie says. The family's transfer requests were denied because Thompson wouldn't reimburse the other district for the cost of teaching Luke. Meanwhile, at Berthoud Elementary, with one-on-one training and a trio of teacher's aides constantly at his side, the third-grader was advancing in such areas as writing...
...Harvard might blush over the title. The reading includes works from Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. The class also features numerous film screenings. Perhaps the most popular WGS class from last year was WGS 1151, “Sex, Rights, and Stereotypes: Queer Culture In America From Stone Wall to Gay Marriage,” taught by the charismatic Timothy McCarthy of Lit and Arts A-86, “Protest Literature” fame. The course examined queer America through the lens of popular culture. The boys from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?...