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...late April when a Guangzhou newspaper, the Southern Metropolis News, published a detailed account of Sun's case, China's media, academic circles and Internet chat rooms have been abuzz with demands for reform and even abolition of the system. Sun's status as a college-educated up-and-comer rather than an out-of-work farmhand has fueled widespread outrage. "You were imprisoned because you would not be a pet animal or a slave," read one of many eulogies to Sun posted on the Internet. Lending force to this outcry is the fact that China's recent experiences with...
...small brands also have more elastic production and manufacturing schedules that allow stores more flexibility when ordering and displaying merchandise. Denim brands like Habitual and Paper, Denim & Cloth can turn around a new product in a matter of weeks. And an up-and-comer from London like Alice Temperley will happily put together a little table display on the ground floor of Bendel's on any given Saturday...
Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration and a late-comer to the race, was also the first candidate to present his 10,000 qualifying signatures to the Mass. secretary of state earlier this month—a display of his grassroots popularity...
...world," Winchell supposedly said. "I go after the Westbrook Peglers [a right-wing journalist]." Five years later, Lehman was a big-shot screenwriter ("Executive Suite," "Sabrina") and reluctant to have the romanette-a-clef turned into a movie. But the indie-prod outfit Hecht-Lancaster was a comer - "Trapeze," with Burt Lancaster and Curtis, had hit it big, and "Marty" would win the top Oscar in 1956 - so when they promised Lehman he could direct as well as adapt his story, he bought...
...that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...