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...After a year studying textile management at the University of Leeds, he returned to Hong Kong and placed second (singing American Pie) in ATV's Asian Music Contest. His 1978 film debut, Erotic Dream of the Red Chamber, was notable only for his butt-baring. Still, filmmakers saw his appeal as a new kind of star: beautiful, tender, dangerous. He still has it, and better. He's James Dean with a mean streak, or a deeper Johnny Depp...
...states and orchestrated the withdrawal of a candidate in a third. He attended a meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to discuss policy toward Sudan, a country that persecutes Christians and is therefore of particular interest to evangelicals. And he helped conceive what the Bushies call the "Echo Chamber," a plan to use the media's obsession with marking the first 100 days in office to flog Bush's accomplishments...
...back to Chris Sullivan's America. The South is becoming too much like the rest of the country, he tells me, listing immigration and the homogenizing, obliterating effects of commercial development among the culprits. Many Asians are settling in the South, he says. And "Chamber of Commerce types are turning the South into one big subdivision." The problem isn't the Asians so much as the development, he clarifies, and the idea that if you were dropped blindfolded into the South, you might think you were anywhere else in America...
...wedding is complete without one massive family fight, preferably one that exhumes old slights, hurts and differences. That gives us something to strive for in the next two weeks. In the meantime, my plan is to keep everyone busy. I deployed my dad to review photographers and find chamber music. My mom is arranging flowers and baking bread for the reception. I am overseeing the food, as I look forward, after five months of austerity, to finally being able to eat once I get the dress on. David, relieved that I have stopped cutting his list, is writing the ceremony...
...Since the 1980s, all 38 states with capital punishment, and the federal government, have made provisions for at least one family member of a killer's victim to look on, either in person or via a broadcast. With the court-ordered release last year of a videotape of death chamber preparations in Tennessee for Robert Glen Coe right up to the lethal injection, and with clips from the 1999 electrocution in Florida of Allen Lee Davis available on the Internet, executions are beginning to sneak into public view. McVeigh himself wants to go all the way. In a letter sent...