Word: consciousnesses
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...Singapore for the past few years. But with the contemporary drama Zhou Yu's Train, she returns to the screen in a familiar role: the dreamy, ethereal beauty drowning in doomed love. Gong Li's sculpted cheekbones and anguished eyes are up to the task, but the self-conscious Zhou Yu's Train never quite manages to pull out of the station...
...father and son team behind burgeoning Turkish denim brand Mavi set their sights on the New World, people naturally thought they were mad. Even madder, rather than sell their jeans at Wal-Mart on the cheap, as many developing country producers do, the pair went for the gold: fashion-conscious youths willing to fork out $60 a pair. And for more than a year after Mavi began exporting to select U.S. department stores late in 1996, sales were painfully slow. Then came Molly, a line of low-rise, slightly flared women's jeans with a wholesome name that became...
Coronado and Crooks say they are proud of how their backgrounds have shaped their perspectives, but increasingly conscious of the future obligations that they entail. “I appreciate the way that I grew up so much that I almost hope that I don’t have much money in the future,” Crooks says. “At the same time, my parents need to take it easy for a while. I have seen my parents, who have literally nothing, make so many sacrifices.” She sees either politics or business...
...along with Bowen, Rudenstine co-authored an article in favor of race-conscious admissions policies which appeared in the Feb. 7 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was cited in Harvard’s brief...
...message to blacks that they can't meet the same standards as everyone else. Swain's detractors say such steps amount to no more than a cowardly capitulation to racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace an American national identity...