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...points") and vaguely forbidding. Hollywood couldn't ignore her allure, and had taken notice of her stardom in Europe. Finally, in 1931, at 26, she got top billing in her first American talkie, director Lloyd Corrigan's Daughter of the Dragon - which, in its unabashed melodramatic excess, its rampaging ethnic stereotypes and the opportunity it affords its star to be simultaneously sexy and grave, sympathetic and villainous, qualifies the film as the definitive Anna May Wong movie...
...phone conversations with the purported scam artists as they solicited new money, the agency verified that the suspects were using an offshore shell company to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by pledging annual profits of more than 38% and an eight-year rate of return in excess of 1,000%. TIME has confirmed that the FBI is likely to move in on the fraudsters soon...
...Have a Dream" speech, which marshaled the mighty word as frequently as Bush did and was delivered, appropriately, at the opposite end of the Washington Mall in 1963. But ours is also a generation that has self-indulgently perverted King's call to freedom into a defense of excess, of freedom from responsibility. Our grandiose notion of ourselves was stoked by John F. Kennedy's crusading rhetoric and by Lyndon Johnson's foolishly literal attempts to turn Kennedy's idealism into action...
...It’s much better not to drink at all than to drink too much,” Stampfer said. According to Stampfer, there is evidence that even occasional excess drinking in young people can profoundly affect their cognitive health in later years and there is no evidence that they benefit from moderate drinking either...
Despite the health benefits of consuming a small quantity of alcohol each day, medical professionals are reluctant to prescribe alcohol as part of individuals’ diets, Grodstein said. She added that some people have an undiscovered predisposition to alcohol that could cause them to drink to excess...