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...mother in Hong Kong and found his way to Lo Wu. Detained on the mainland and interrogated back in Hong Kong, he nevertheless crossed into Shenzhen without identification papers or even the power of speech. His parents are still looking for him. Just a few steps from his hometown, Shenzhen had swallowed...
...manufacture in the region. Exports range from precision valves to computer chips to 75% of the world's steel golf-club shafts. Tupelo has even attracted one U.S. factory back from Mexico. And other Tupelo companies compete successfully against imports, making everything from crepe paper to couches. (The Hometown of the King of Rock 'n' Roll is also the Upholstered Furniture Capital of the World...
...figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism and with a fierce, cinematic energy that is uniquely Inarritu...
...Capitol Hill: Well-behaved hometown crowd The standoff presented U.S. legislators with probably their toughest challenge - keeping quiet and letting the White House sort it out. And for the most part, they managed to remain calm and dignified despite 24-hour news television's hunger for threats and ultimatums. Lucky for everyone, though, that the issue was resolved before they returned from recess...
...Roberto Clemente died before I was born; I don't have much experience dealing with the passing of hometown legends. So when I learned that Stargell had died Monday morning after a long battle with kidney disease, I was at something of a loss. Am I fit to accurately remember a man who played his greatest seasons when I was in grade school...