Word: ling
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...amazing amount of opportunity has opened up for me. I’m thinking about staying longer in the United States,” Marentis said.The other Harvard-affiliated Soros Fellows are Deema Arafah, Alvaro Bedoya, Amit Bouri, Susie Huang, Paul Kwak, Elizabeth Kwo, Darryl Li, Sze-Ling Ng, Antonio Perez, Yulia Ryzhik, and Colette Shen. The program has 172 alumni and 60 students currently participating...
...sisters. These two sisters, Junan and Yinan, grow up together during China’s Cultural Revolution. The elder, Junan, is more practical and less emotional than the younger Yinan. As their story progresses from childhood to adulthood, and as Yinan and her sister’s husband Ling begin an affair, Chang dramatically juxtaposes their own family troubles with China’s political foibles. The story is told by Junan’s daughter Hong, who assumes an omniscient tone as she pieces together her family history. As Chang explains, Hong “can enter the thoughts...
...Dumplings”—shortened from a full-length movie of the same name—is by far the most graphically disgusting of the three. Mei (Bai Ling) smuggles aborted fetuses into Hong Kong to make age-defying culinary delicacies. Her customer is Mrs. Lee (Miriam Yeung), a retired actress who is desperate to regain her lost youth and stop her husband’s rampant cheating...
Cartoonist Judd Winick met his future wife Pam Ling on season three of The Real World. Now he's used her Chinese-American culture as the springboard for the story of a sarcastic 11-year-old who is the Te Xuan Ze, the protector of humanity from supernatural villains. It's a little derivative of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--O.K., a lot--but Juniper has its own clever twists; for instance, only she can see her monster enemies. Let it never be said nothing good came out of reality...
...nursed back to health and given a rudimentary prosthetic stump. Later, his wife and three children?then aged 9, 7 and 1?trekked for more than two months through malarial jungles to join him. Four women from his home village were raped by Burmese soldiers, claims Wi Ling?credibly, since the systematic rape of women and girls by the junta's troops has been well documented by international rights groups, and many rape victims have sought refuge at Loi Tai Leng. "I'll return to my village," says Wi Ling, "when the Burmese soldiers leave...