COME THE TAKEOVER . . .
The Gate of Heavenly Peace, an American-made documentary on the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square, was a hit movie in the first half of this year in Hong Kong. In March, the Far Eastern...
...In Johannesburg, she said she felt "I'm just home...
...Chinese embassies around the world protested screenings of the film...
...While the city for which he is nominally responsible continues to wallow in debt and scandalous mismanagement, the four-term former felon and his wife enjoyed an all-expenses-paid nine-day trip to the African/African-American summit in Zimbabwe (courtesy of summit organizer Rev...
...His cost of production is 4/5 of this price...
...It's a new day as to how the United States looks at the continent of Africa in a post-colonial, post-Cold War world...
...The weekly speculated that it might be because so many Chinese officials were going to see the film themselves, or it might be because of "the current spell of tolerance by Beijing on Hong Kong issues, apparently intended to calm local nerves before the takeover...
...His cost of production is $80, and his profit is $20...
...This Just In_ Concerned Women for America last week joined the boycott of Walt Disney begun in early June by the Southern Baptist Convention...
...The Mayor Abroad_ Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry's tour of Africa was a many-splendored thing...
...financial control board, who was appointed to clean up Marion Barry's mess...
...And they've added some reasons of their own...
...No censorship, no violence, just capitalism in the service of the totalitarian ideas that destroy capitalism...
...1990 (whole math): By cutting down beautiful forest trees, a logger makes $20...
...Topic for class participation: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel...
...Cora Masters Barry did her best to ingratiate the couple along the way...
...Brimmer also was along at the summit, albeit on his own dime...
...On June 30, the day before the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong, a "complex deal" was consummated, closing the doors of Columbia Classics and (not coincidentally) ending the run of The Gate of Heavenly Peace...
...Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set M. The set C of costs of production contains 20 fewer points than set M. Represent the set C as a subset of M, and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set P of profits...
...Then, as the Post's Vernon Loeb reported, Brimmer embarrassed the Afrophile mayor with "a lesson on Victoria Falls—a natural wonder several hundred miles west of Harare—and scolded him for not knowing African geography...
...1970 (new math): A logger exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money...
...Kemp fulfilled his endorsement duties on CNN...
...This is a really new day...
...Underline the number 20...
...1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100...
...Indeed, he's considered a favorite "to become Hong Kong's next chief executive...
...Chairman Paxon?_ Barely a week after taking the fall for the failed anti-Newt coup, Bill Paxon is being pushed by influential Republicans for a newly created position as "general chairman" of the Republican National Committee...
...1970 (traditional math): A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100...
...In one scene Mickey conjured up the broomstick to clean the floor, clearly denying God's command to use divination...
...Hmm...
...in other words, $80...
...This would both calm Republicans who have worried that Nicholson isn't a forceful enough presence in the media and keep Paxon in the public eye, pending future high-profile jobs on Capitol Hill...
...one of the biggest rivers in Africa.'" Also at the summit was a delegation of failed pols picked by President Clinton to promote his trade measures with Africa: Jesse Jackson, former New York City mayor David Dinkins, and Jack Kemp...
...But "innovations" in the math curriculum have a long history, as we are reminded by this joke circulating, as they now say, on the Internet...
...The cardinality of set M is 100, and each element is worth $1...
...1980 (dumbed-down math): A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100...
...The old premises are owned by a family business whose most prominent son, Vincent Lo, is an adviser to Beijing...
...Ah, the good old days before the 1940 release of Fantasia...
...In March, the Far Eastern Economic Review reported that the film, directed by the Beijing-born Carma Hinton, had grossed over a million Hong Kong dollars in the five weeks after its January opening at Columbia Classics, the colony's premier art house...
...After all, as Rev...
...How about a continental Empowerment Zone, with Marion Barry as administrator...
...Lund, needless to say, is a professor of law at George Mason University...
...One example the group offered of Disney's "antagonism" toward Christianity is "Fantasia, which heightened the awareness of witchcraft as Mickey Mouse played the sorcerer's apprentice...
...Jim Nicholson, the current RNC chairman, would retain day-to-day operating responsibilities, but Paxon would be the public face of the party...
...Other sources told the magazine that the theater "was not given the option to renew its lease after it expired on June 30...
...Here we have the paradigm of the suppression of speech...
...Leon Sullivan...
...It's got to be investment, trade, and education...
...According to the Washington Post, Brimmer and Barry found plenty of occasions to spar...
...It's been downhill ever since...
...Money buys silence...
...Such as speaker...
...What do you think of this way of making money...
...Sorry_ We inadvertently failed to identify Nelson Lund, author of last week's book review "Down Kevorkian's Slope...
...His cost of production is 4/5 of this price...
...Of course, her words probably won't ingratiate her husband with the District's overseers on Capitol Hill, or with Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the D.C...
...A Math Problem, 1960-1990 In fascinating and horrifying detail, Lynne Cheney elsewhere in this issue limns the efforts of Clinton administration education experts and a cabal of teacher bureaucrats to subvert mathematics—the one subject you might think even the education establishment would have a hard time ruining (see page 25...
...This would be a largely ceremonial but high-profile title that Paxon would hold along with his duties in the House...
...Among them: "Disney has changed its once family friendly films to overt anti-Christian and anti-moral themes...
...First Barry challenged Brimmer's endorsement of free-market reforms for Africa...
...What is his profit...
...It literally creates rain,' Brimmer said of the falls, 'so you've got all the vegetation of a rainforest.' " 'Where does the water come from?' " 'The Zambezi River,' Brimmer replied...
...As the Far Eastern Economic Review now reports, the cinema's owners insist that their closing has nothing to do with The Gates of Heavenly Peace but is part of an effort to find a cheaper lease elsewhere...
...And it might be that Beijing simply had a better plan in store...
...What is his profit...
...Sullivan pointed out after Barry finished a speech in Harare, "This is his audience, this is his constituency...
...And it's good," she added, "when I turn around and look, that there are so many people who look like me and that they are running things, without someone else telling them what to do...
...But not in Hong Kong...
Vol. 2 • August 1997 • No. 46
