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...Nanjing Kissinger received an award for "Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Understanding" between China and America. For his role in the 1970s, certainly. As for his relations with Beijing in the years since, however, there may be a little bit too much mutual understanding going on. In any case, Hengli can rest assured: should more suits be filed against him in America, he's always welcome in China...
...Yang, a leader of Taiwan's 1980s new-wave movement, told rich stories, set in modern Taipei, of teenage gangs and empowered girls coming of age. He was best known for Yi-Yi, a family saga told from numerous points of view that won him the 2000 Best Director award at Cannes. Yang was 59 and had colon cancer...
...wasn't happy with the language, but overall I don't think its going to be a problem," said Dallas producer and filmmaker Todd Sims. The director of the award-winning 2005 independent movie Echoes of Innocence, Sims said any measure of control over content can be a slippery slope, but passage of an incentive bill was critical to the Texas film industry. "No one is saying you can't shoot a movie in Texas that makes Texas look bad. All we are saying is you are not going to get a grant," Sims said. And regardless of content...
...Kevin Durant: I would say right after I won the Wooden award (for being the nation's top college player), it hit me. I did as much as I could do in college individually. As a team, we could have went to the national championship. But making a decision like that, you have to be selfish a little...
...comments published in the Wall Street Journal under the title “Finkelstein’s Bigotry,” Dershowitz alleges that Finkelstein has “encouraged radical goons to email threatening messages.” He then quotes from a letter of award-winning biologist Robert Trivers, in which his views of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict are criticized, and he is compared to a “Nazi-like apologist...