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Eastman School of Music backpedals, cancels China tour
Eastman School dean relents on China tour under intense criticism.
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Mercury in the Great Lakes? Blame China
China, it turns out, is responsible for a lot of the mercury that’s deposited into the Great Lakes. That little fact was an aside in a press release I received today from the International Joint Commission, an organization that advises the US and Canadian governments on matters relating to shared water bodies. A 2011 report […]
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Film Review: “A Touch of Sin”
In “A Touch of Sin,” Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke tells four individual stories, tangentially connected to one another. Each tale, based loosely off a real news stories from modern Chinese history, focuses on a random act of violence committed by some poor soul who has been pushed to his or her limit by the corruption […]
