Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary C. Hennessey '84-5 spent her year dishing out food to the homeless on Los Angeles' Skid-Row. Pamela Leroy '82-4 spent 15 months sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, picking potatoes in New Zealand, and hiking through Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Dennis Crowley '75-'85 taught music, conducted and worked as an MIT staff librarian in his decade away from Harvard...
...Hyde Park, MA 64 Alex Hart SE 6-1 215 Jr. Pales Verdos, CA 80 Mike Hart SE 6-1 176 Se. Pales Verdos, CA 26 Richard Heine SE 6-1 185 Jr. Chicago, IL 45 Rob Hobert MG 6-0 196 Jr. Irvine, CA 84 Bob Hong TE 6-2 229 Se. Cambridge, MA 11 Jeff Howkins ADJ 6-2 225 Se. E. Providence, RI 69 Wayne Hunley OG 6-2 225 Se. Pittsburgh, PA 28 Bill Hyland FS 6-2 215 Jr. Fexbore, MA 61 Joe Ippollto OG 6-2 235 Sr. Wantagh, NY 99 Sam Johnson...
These tremors notwithstanding, Hong Kong's export industries are so strong that the colony has been able to reach a 6% growth rate. Chen forecast that expansion will slow to perhaps 4.5% next year. The weakness of Hong Kong's currency in the international exchange markets has fanned the inflation rate, which is now 12.5% and will remain at least 10%, Chen said, through...
...make movies that are "ripped from today's headlines" must tread a narrow, tortuous path. Pay attention to all the political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit of Hong Kong's Ann Hui, the 36-year-old director of Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that faced...
Boat People, whose scenario Hui based on eyewitness reports she received from hundreds of Vietnamese refugees, was the first Hong Kong movie to be shot in Communist China. That she made her film with the support of a regime hostile to Viet Nam raised eyebrows. And when Boat People was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and this fall at the New York Film Festival, it raised hackles on the neck of the left. The passions Boat People elicits testify not only to the bitterness of the worldwide debate between left and right...