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...Taiwan's first President; in Taipei. Chiang's body will be transferred from the temporary grave where it has lain since his death in 1975 to a permanent site in a military cemetery outside Taipei in early 2005. Interred alongside him will be his son and presidential successor CHIANG CHING-KUO, who died in 1988. Both men had asked to be buried in mainland China if the Nationalists ever wrested control of the country from the Communist Party...
...Hero was a meditative, superbly color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers is also perfumed by the haunting musk of death, but it's a jauntier piece, shot in luscious autumnal colors and with fabulous stunts supervised by Hong Kong-based action guru Ching Siu-tung. This time, renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with 9th century cops (Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro) who pursue and fall in love with them. Daggers would be an excellent adventure even without its leading lady. But as the new embodiment of Chinese beauty and resilience, she gives the film a kind...
...Wong Brothers” running a laundry service. AsianWeek.com reported how Shaquille O’Neal cracked racial jokes, repeatedly singled out Houston Rockets player Yao Ming for mockery and even threats of violence, and told a reporter to “Tell Yao Ming, ‘ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” The media, including The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press, ignored the incident and declined to report...
...taped lectures appear regularly in the New York Times book review. In faculty meeting earlier this month, Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M. Ziolkowski perhaps put it best with a two-syllable “haiku” about the Harvard College Courses: “Ka-ching!” In a previous column, I mocked administrators for lacking the creativity to come up with a name more interesting than “Harvard College Courses” (which would seem to imply that all other courses within the College are not, indeed, Harvard College Courses?...
...they plan to solicit feedback and what process the report must go through before it is implemented. If the secrecy of the process used to create the report is any indication, we may not even be told about the feedback process before the feedback period is finished. Ka-ching, indeed...