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...With SARS at full strength during the filming last spring, Chang had to hurry to capture a cameo spot by Tony Leung Ka-fai to avoid the quarantine measures Taiwan was about to impose on travelers from Hong Kong. When Chang wanted to shoot a scene at Taipei's airport, officials allowed in only 50 cast and crew members?a paltry number to simulate an airport throng. "I was thinking maybe a flight would come in, and there could be people in the background," Chang says. "But all the flights were canceled. The airport was empty." She was forced...
Thankfully, the standard Harvard International student strolls through this process with ease. Safely through the airport doors with her verified student visa and there you have it: an incident-free immigration. On her maiden voyage, the first-year international student may have questioned the ambiance of the airport, reassuring herself that cultural sensitivity can only improve with proximity to Cambridge. She considers the flourishing “Foreign Cultures” curriculum and the impressive assembly of international academics. The unassuming student can’t help but convince herself that Harvard will be a bastion of international culture...
...handling various constituency groups, including business. While working on China trade policy, she met her future husband Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group, but the two didn't really start to get to know each other until they found themselves with time to kill at the Seattle airport after the riotous WTO talks of 1999. Their courtship played out in a uniquely Beltway fashion. She asked him to the White House Millennium Ball. ("Not too much pressure," she laughs.) In less than a year, they were married...
...spend more quality time with her, leaving you to venture off to Park City alone because the entire non-refundable trip was on your Mastercard and then forcing you to find an alternate way home from Logan because he “borrowed” your car from the airport parking lot using the spare set of keys you unwittingly left in your top dresser drawer and then alerting you to this fact with only a terse voicemail stating that he would be unavailable to pick you up in your own car because he had taken it to New York...
...reason to be ill at ease. Haiti?s political institutions, including the national parliament, have been switched off for months; the contingent of some 100 U.S. Marines flown in by President Bush Sunday night have been ordered only to guard key facilities, such as the Port-au-Prince airport and presidential palace, and national security consists of a few hundred guerrillas-along with a few thousand cops who belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert...