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...film Hero earned an Oscar nomination and broke mainland box-office records for a Chinese movie by raking in some $27 million. Daggers reunites several key players in that winning team: producer Bill Kong (who was also behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong-based stunt director Tony Ching, and Australian visual-effects group Animal Logic, which dazzled in The Matrix...
Like PBS's Antiques Roadshow, these shows are entertaining because they make good old-fashioned greed respectable, with a glossy topcoat of aesthetics. There are tasteful tips on lighting and open-house prep (bake cookies! put out a bowl of oranges!), but it's all foreplay for the ka-ching! moment when we find out how much a home sold for. "It's voyeurism on two levels," says Sell This House executive producer Robert Sharenow. "You want to peek at the underwear drawer, and you want to know 'How much did they...
Along with Paley, Design Chairs Ellen E. Ching ’04 and Christine C. Yokoyama ’04 headed up an executive committee that sought input from the entire staff...
...charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but became an entrepreneur instead. Mei-ling attended high school in Macon, Ga. She eventually returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that...
...implacable distrust of communism, enabled her to remain a central figure in Chiang's government even after the Nationalists were driven to Taiwan when the Communists triumphed in 1949. Upon the 1975 death of her husband, who in 1978 was succeeded as President by her stepson Chiang Ching-kuo, Mei-ling returned to the U.S. She twice served as Taiwan's unofficial spokeswoman in rebuffing China's reunification overtures and spent her final years in a Manhattan apartment at Gracie Square. It seems only right that she died in the land where she had enjoyed her greatest moments...