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...always, but frequently. You may know that Chaney, because of his gift (and fondness) for distorting his features to play a wide range of characters, was known as the Man of a Thousand Faces. Well, Wong was the Woman of a Thousand Deaths. A saunter through the film synopses in Anna May Wong: A Complete Guide to Her Film, Stage, Radio and Television Work, by Philip Leibfried and Chei Mi Lane, reveals some of the mischief done to Wong characters: she was buried alive in The Devil Dancer, fatally impaled on knives in Song, shot dead in Piccadilly, Daughter...
...anything about that. You can't get everybody to like you, but I've got a lot of support in this town. People are trying to marginalize me. I won't be marginalized, and I won't be demonized. God gave me a gift to inspire people. It's not how many times you get knocked on your butt, but do you get up? I got up 14 years...
Even before this blizzard buried all other news in the major Northeastern media outlets, as if a gift from the heavens to University President Lawrence H. Summers, this winter had been a hard, bitter season. Surely, though, this was no challenge the proud snowmen and snowwomen of our campus could not surmount. Surely students would live up to their predecessors’ sang froid and dash out into the freeze, defying nature...
...than a dozen listings online and visited two places in person. That night he made an offer. The process was painless, says Getson, 23, who moved into his Centreville, Va., home just five weeks after starting his search. "As a bonus," he adds, "I'm getting a Home Depot gift card for $1,000 that I'll use to redo some cabinets...
Consumers are beginning to reap the benefits of the heightened competition. Getson's $1,000 gift card came from LendingTree, which used the card, as it always does, to rebate half the fee it collects for referring business to brokers around the country. In this case, the rebate chopped the total commission on Getson's deal from 6% to 5.5%--an important chink in the Old Guard's armor, says Peter Sealey, a professor of technology and marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. "Slowly but surely, technology is coming into play in the real estate market," he says...