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The film does an excellent job in immediately establishing definite, interesting characters. For example, every aspect of Wai-Tung's life screams Yuppie. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a beautiful home, doesn't eat junk food and decides which boxers to wear according to the day of the week...

Author: By Sarah Schmidt, | Title: `Wedding Banquet' a Memorable Feast | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Vatican garages house six of the four-ton, bulletproof Popemobiles. And a surprising 14 other heavy-duty papal vehicles stand at the ready around the world. (The one John Paul rode through Denver last month was shipped up from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Church, One Pope -- and 20 Popemobiles | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

This is nothing new in Nigeria where "dash," or bribes, have been a regular source of income for government officials since long before independence. But the current level of corruption dwarfs anything in the colonial past. The result, says C.S. Whitaker, a Nigeria specialist at the University of Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamed By Their Nation | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Beijing -- Communist Party officials in China are launching a purge of corruption in the government and the military that could prove to be bloody. Wei Jianxing, head of the party disciplinary committee, recently told a closed-door meeting of the party's central committee that corruption has reached epidemic proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Aug. 30, 1993 | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

On this birthday evening the puckish John Paul, waiting to gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Most Hearts Go Ker-thump | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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