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...industry has grown up around birthday parties for the younger set. Greeting card company Hallmark estimates that people spend over $600 million on kids' cards, gift-wrap and partyware every year. Companies like Libby Lu have make-over parties, Build-A-Bear stores have private party rooms and there's even a museum that allows kids to dissect sheep's eyeballs. It can cost from $500 to $1,000 to hold a party at one of these venues - or $38,000 if you want to rent out famed toy store FAO Schwartz for a sleepover...
...script, by Lu Wei, who also worked on Zhang's To Live and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, nicely arranges the vectors of comradeship and competition, power and conscience. Zhou Xiaowen's direction is on the stolid side, but his coaxes his lead actors into giving superb performances, full of the intelligent fury the material demands. This is a movie headed for tragedy (the warlord orders Jianli blinded by the fumes of horse urine!), and by the end two of the three are dead. The lieutenant, driven mad with jealousy on hearing of Yueyang's affair with Jianli, murders...
Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...
...race as a lead up to next weekend’s Heptagonal Championships. The lead male runner, senior Patrick Baur, came through the line in 26:56—good enough for 111th overall. Following him up were freshmen Brian Kaufman and Stephan Chester, and then junior Haibo Lu. The trio of Harvard runners finished 124 133, and 134 place in times of 27:16, 27:29, and 27:37, respectively. On the women’s side of the Mayor’s Cup, senior Erika Helbling finished in 83rd place—the best Harvard place...
...equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many...