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...echoes of On Gold Mountain begin midway through, after a dramatic reversal of fortune forces the sisters to leave Shanghai. They wind up in Los Angeles as the reluctant brides to sons of a Chinatown entrepreneur to whom their father owed a gambling debt, experiencing the racism that characterized Chinese emigrant life. And later, as the story moves past 1949, a connection to See's mystery novels emerges, in the form of a key character heading across the Pacific, leaving the door open for a sequel to take place in the modern People's Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Sisters | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...saloon by simply flashing their ID. For a state that forbids happy hour, ordering doubles, putting more than 2.5 oz. of liquor in a libation and mixing cocktails in front of restaurant-goers, the new law, which took effect on July 1, was cause for celebration. One enthusiastic entrepreneur organized a crawl to mark the occasion; participants donned T-shirts emblazoned with the initials D.U.I. (for "Drinking Utah's Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Quirky Alcohol Laws | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

Dillinger gets the genial touch of Johnny Depp's star quality in Public Enemies, the gigantic, meticulous but finally perfunctory new biopic from director and co-writer Michael Mann. There's not a soupçon of psychopathy in this Dillinger; rather, he's a smart, charming, efficient entrepreneur whose career would've lasted much longer if he hadn't been surrounded by klutzes, sharks and a betrayer from a brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kill Dill: Depp's Dillinger Disappoints | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...denounced Zelaya as a communist who planned to turn the nation of sweatshops and banana plantations into a Soviet-style fortress. One of his worst crimes, allege the self-proclaimed patriots, was raising the minimum wage to $290 a month. "With this action, he declared war on business," says entrepreneur Jesus Sabat, 23, as he waves the nation's blue-and-white flag during the demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hondurans Take Sides and Hit the Streets | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...late '90s, software entrepreneur John Zitzner was pretty close to being bankrupt. Yet within six months - in one of those typical "holy crap" dotcom-era stories - Zitzner had sold his company and become "a very modest millionaire." Fantastic. And in one of those typical "What do I do with all this money?" stories, he decided to help make the world a better place - specifically by co-founding a charter school in Cleveland. (Read TIME's report: "How to Raise the Standard in America's Schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Public Schools? | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

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