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...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 she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor ("The only thing Oriental about me," she reportedly said, "is my face"). She was in her mid-20s and the flower of Shanghai's intellectual community when she first caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 1898-2003: A Flower Made of Steel | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...their new single, shares a lot of the same genetic material as “Hey Ya!”: Handclaps, catchy keyboard-sounding riffs and the backbeat that has been the granddaddy of every rock song since Elvis. Casablancas’ drawl is as bewitching as ever, the perfect combination of bored and earnest...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but instead became an entrepreneur. Mei-ling, at the age of 11, entered high school in Macon, Georgia. Nine years later, she returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor. ("The only thing Oriental about me," she once wrote, "is my face.") In the early 1920s, she was a flower of Shanghai's intellectual community when she caught the eye of Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Singular Woman | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...gloriously forlorn landscape?the Taklimakan Desert?where the men ride camels as well as horses. Our outlaw hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Camel... | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...Yeah, I get fired up,” McBurney says, in his thick Alabama drawl. “I like to talk a little smack...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Southern Comfort: DT McBurney Right At Home at Harvard | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

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