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After four starring roles, Yeoh wed Dickson Poon, her patron at D&B Films, and, at 25, retired from acting. The marriage ended four years later, and Chan quickly offered her a part as his kick-butt co-star in Super Cop. In some later roles she got to play ultra-glam goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor...
...Dickson, the man organizing the demonstration, stood nearly sightless along the huge monument walls and imagined how a statue of Roosevelt in a wheelchair at the entrance would bring the stone to life. When Dickson was seven he was told by his doctor that he had juvenile macula degeneration and would soon be blind. As he walked with his parents out of the doctor's office, his mother told him, "If Franklin Roosevelt, who had polio and was in a wheelchair, could be President, then you can do what you want." He never forgot...
...work at a computer by it. So, industrious as we Harvard students are, we have collectively moved to the best alternative, halogens (and no one has died either). The floor lamps (which we urge students not to buy at the Coop) can be purchased at Dickson Bros. and HSA for roughly $20, and they are an invaluable fixture in any dorm room...
...concerned enough in the Yard that I have told [Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)] and Dickson Brothers that we expect to tell incoming first-year students we do not want halogen floor lamps in first-year dorms," Nathans said in an interview yesterday...
...town needed a miracle. And over Thanksgiving weekend it got one. With a mixture of shock and gratitude, Roby residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized...