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...Harvard Management Company (HMC) agreed to divest itself of shares in Templeton Asset Management’s China World and Dragon funds, in which it had invested a combined $115 million of the University’s $18 Billion endowment. In return, HMC will be permitted to sell those shares at a price above the shares’ market value...
...Templeton pointed to the performance of the China and Dragon funds as evidence that the company is protecting shareholder interests. The funds gained 34 and 21 percent respectively last year, according to investment research firm Morningstar...
...story is true, as far as it goes. But even stranger is the "prequel": the lives of Chan's parents, Charles and Lily, on their perilous journeys to Hong Kong. The absorbing documentary Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan & His Lost Family, which premiered at last month's Berlin Film Festival, reveals the extended Chan clan as a microcosm of China's turbulent 20th century history. It's a riveting yarn, too, replete with guns, gore, drugs, thugs and romance...
...characterized by its fanciful stories and earnest, teardrop-faced heroes?has been a favorite in Japan for decades. It's not that American kids are clueless. They've been exposed to Japanese animation, or anim?, for years?thanks to the success of manga-based TV cartoons like Pok?mon and Dragon Ball, and the movies of Hayao Miyazaki. Yet no one thought manga would fly off the magazine rack...
...without risk. Shonen Jump is up against the tried-and-true formula of American comics, which are traditionally based on red-blooded superheroes triumphing over evil in 36 pages or less. The five series that appear in the 300-page first issue of Shonen Jump?Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, SandLand, YuYu Hakusho and One Piece?have nuanced story arcs that may not be resolved for years. For example, the archives of Dragon Ball Z?a tale of galactic war over a set of wish-granting orbs?run to 8,000 pages printed over more than a decade...