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...something to reel me back in. I questioned if I could really take on the slew of responsibilities granted to each news exec, and if I could do it my way. Competition mingled with curiosity to keep my interest and enthusiasm alive. I didn’t want to admit it, but I was hooked...
...admit, I was shocked when Stephen first suggested it,” said Jannie S. Tsuei ’06, current co-chair of FM. “I told him: ‘I really, really like this idea, but I’m not sure if you are really the best dancer, or if this is something you really want to do.’ I said, ‘we’ll support you, but I’m not sure if this is a good idea...
...achievement, and one in which Lee and his colleagues take justifiable pride. It is, moreover, something that has been much admired, to the point of imitation, around the region. Asian leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra and Indonesia's Suharto may rarely have chosen to admit it, but their "economy first" strategy owes much to the intelligence of a Cambridge-educated lawyer who - he admits - was himself "distraught" when his island state found itself independent and alone. Above all, with their horror of chaos, luan, China's leaders have for three decades come to Singapore...
...concentrators the opportunity to take these classes?MG: There’s a kind of expectation that you have to be a concentrator in order to get into those courses, but actually that’s not at all true. We take freshmen very regularly, faculty are free to admit any person that they like into an enrollment course, and they try to build an interesting class. So it’s not an exclusive activity. I think a lot of people don’t apply to these courses simply because they assume that they can?...
...smell the time, bring them back to that time and place.”In casting the two lead roles, Lee says that his decisions were based solely on talent, and that the actors’ sexuality was never a factor. But he does admit that sexual identification might have made the process easier. “If they’re gay, I’m happier,” he says. “But I never asked if they were gay. I never checked with their agent.”Gyllenhaal hears this and gives...