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...color that looks good on everyone, which is not the case for emeralds and rubies." Seven years ago, he says, tanzanite was difficult to come by, but today it represents an astounding 20% of sales in his stores, equal to watches and topped only by diamonds, which account for a third of his sales. "It is by far our most important colored gemstone," Greig says. "We are not pushing tanzanite, but that is where the market is taking...
...producer Kevin Kent is negotiating with Oliver Stone to direct a film based on his own novel, Nanking. Stanley Tong, the Hong Kong director of several Jackie Chan movies, has a Nanjing movie in development, and award-winning Chinese director Lu Chuan hopes to start shooting his own account of the massacre this month. Finally, Canadian filmmaker Bill Spahic is aiming to complete his documentary, The Woman Who Couldn't Forget: The Iris Chang Story, in time for the massacre's 70th anniversary in December...
...John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that Eastwood, the earnest Westerner, couldn't get much past the earnest Eastern clichés: the suicidal fanatics, the humanistic general, the humble baker turned soldier who serves as a life-affirming symbol of hope...
...Also representing GMDVP was an anonymous survivor of gay domestic violence who commenced the event by sharing his account. He stared mostly at his lap as he revealed how a past relationship had morphed from one filled with cooking and country music to one filled with 82 hospital visits and broken bones. He said his jaw was broken when his boyfriend pushed him downstairs and that he still takes medication daily to control ulcerations in his intestines, vestiges of the abuse...
...February 2005, and the mood in Harvard Yard was not quite as quiet as the blog’s arrival. Bradley’s latest book—”Harvard Rules,” an account of the early years of former University President Lawrence H. Summers—was filling bookstores while at the same time Harvard professors were filling University Hall to protest their president. An unprecedented no-confidence vote would soon fuel the faculty’s revolt, and some observers thought Summers might not survive...