Word: jia
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...United States, we wouldn’t put up with a company that exploited its workforce without providing health care coverage. Why do we accept such scenarios abroad?” said Jia Han ’05, a member of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) who spoke at the rally...
...making the film was hell. Jiang's rigid perfectionism prolonged the shooting by months. Some days he wouldn't film because he didn't know what he wanted. Jiang's assistant director for Heat, Fu Jia, now an executive at Columbia Pictures' office in Beijing, was so scarred by the experience she hasn't worked on the set of a movie since. "It was a nightmare," she shudders. As the shooting of the summer idyll ran into winter, Jiang had freezing actors in summer clothes eating ice cream before takes so that their frosted breath wouldn't appear on film...
...Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand, they had no films invited to the main festival. India too: Devdas was shown out of competition...
...other officers elected were vice presidents Candice Chiu ’04 and Albert C.F. Yeung ’04, secretary-historian Jenny X.L. Huang ’03, educational and political chairs Jia Han ’05 and Crystal Hung ’05, cultural chairs Shaw Natsui ’05 and Wang, social chairs Mark S. Chen ’04 and Karin C. Shieh ’05, interethnic liaisons Jay Pendse ’04 and Jenny C. Wong ’05 and publicity chairs Jason L. Douglas...
...DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with...