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...Lady from Chungking reunited Wong with William Nigh, who had directed her in two silent films. She plays Kwan Mei, a rebel leader who is organizing guerrillas in the hills while wheedling strategic information from Kaimura, the Japanese officer in town. "There is a fragile but durable beauty in you, Madame," purrs the smitten swine, to which Kwan Mei says, "Perhaps I'm as aged-looking as the Great Wall." No, she is fetching in her improbable gear. Anthony Chan observes: "Even as the rebel leader in the rice fields, Kwan Mei wears a silk suit with handwoven buttons...
...China. For the soul of China is eternal. ... We shall live on until the enemy is driven back over scorched land and hurled into the sea. ... Out of the ashes of ruin ... until the world is again sane and beautiful." The firing squad's fatal work doesn't interrupt Kwan Mei's oration; her ghost finishes the speech. It would be Wong's last grand gesture in films...
This research could augment the stem-cell based therapies being investigated currently, said postdoctoral research fellow Kelvin Kwan, who worked on the project...
...appearance of such offensive comments in a nationally circulated publication was bewildering, almost unbelievable. But it didn’t take long to recall other examples of public racism against Asian Americans. The 1998 Olympics came to mind, when MSNBC headlines boasted, “American Beats Out Kwan,” in reference to Michelle Kwan’s second-place finish to Tara Lipinski. Never mind that Kwan was also an American, representing the USA in the Olympics. And apparently no one took to heart the protests that were made after the headline appeared; the mistake was repeated...
...other around like drunks at a rock concert, hurling profanities, punches, shoes and furniture. Decorum finally was restored for a floor vote, and all that energetic wrath was focused on one man: South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun. After a vote tally of 193-2, National Assembly Speaker Park Kwan Yong gravely announced that the legislature had garnered the two-thirds majority necessary to impeach Roh, plunging the country into a political crisis...