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...Richmond section of San Francisco, but she left her heart in China. Proudly unassimilated, Mom replies to her English-speaking children in impeccable Cantonese. Nor will she surrender to Occidental displays of emotion. To give thanks or praise or a show of love to her No. 1 daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew) would be to compromise her matriarchal authority. She will only goad Geraldine to marry that nice Chinese-American doctor from Los Angeles. Then an old woman can follow a fortune teller's prophecy and turn to the business of dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crosscutting Across Cultures | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Laureen A. Donahue was elected president after the previous president, Wilmon Chapman, was promoted to sergeant, making him no longer eligible to be a member of the patrolmen's union...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Elects Union Leader | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...this fat little kid, T-Bird, starts a Girl Haters Club in fourth grade, and Laureen Miranda--she's huge--beats him up, and he pops her one, and she rat-finks... As with any good coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East Bay Grease | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Almost immediately after beginning distribution, the PSLM protest was thwarted by a security firm on the HBS campus. The Harvard University Police Department showed up soon after, and Officer Laureen Donahue informed the students that "Harvard has a policy of no solicitation and no protesting." With regard to a policy of free speech, one Business School official who would not identify himself said, "We don't have a policy like that here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Wrong To Stifle Speech | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Harvard has a policy of no solicitation and no protesting," Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Officer Laureen Donahue told the members of the Philips Brooks House-affiliated group...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Activists Prohibited From Distributing Leaflets at HBS | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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