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...Then, when the reaction did come, it was straight out of the standard communist playbook, phrased in language reminiscent of the worst excesses of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The violence was blamed on that "jackal dressed in monks' robes," as one official described Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Another official said the "Dalai clique" had organized suicide squads as part of its "sinister aim of splitting China." Thousands of paramilitary troops were rushed into Tibet and the extensive ethnically Tibetan regions of China. Journalists were barred from entry and the few already inside troubled areas were...
...isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed hip-hop dramatically, leading to the rise of G-funk and East Coast-West Coast rivalries, and ending with hip-hop selling to mostly white audiences. It’s an important story to tell, and Reeves enriches it with humorous, shocking...
Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...
...Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they are simply trying to hit it as far as possible down long, straight landing strips. "The days of hitting big, sweeping hooks off the tees are gone," he says. "I like the changes though, because it keeps the emphasis on the approach shot...
While most four-star establishments in this part of the city are Old World in style, the oldest thing you'll find at the Pulitzer is the white-and-gold Baroque reception desk, salvaged from a Sicilian church. The rest is straight out of a Modernist design book, but with added heart. The Picasso-like sketches and giant Miró-esque canvases create a very Spanish backdrop to a ground floor dedicated to the Catalunyan art of chilling. Spend the afternoon sinking into one of the white leather couches, sipping cocktails at the red Chinese-lacquer bar, or flipping through...