Word: pan
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...Some Chinese, however, aren't too concerned with Schwarzenegger's Hollywood credentials. Pan Jiancai, a senior advisor at Zhejiang Mingdian Shoe Co., will be dining at Beijing's Great Hall of the People with the Governor and his trade delegation on Tuesday night. "I don't care if he's a movie star," says Pan. "All we want is the chance to exchange name cards with American businessmen." As befits a member of China's emerging entrepreneurial class, Pan puts business ahead of entertainment...
...W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis. The first of a planned two parts, this volume tracks the controversial black intellectual from his middle-class roots in Massachusetts to Paris for the 1918 Pan-African Congress. Lewis reveals the crusading editor and author of The Souls of Black Folk to be an aloof thinker struggling with contradictory ideas about racial inclusion and separatism...
...success. Young children will probably enjoy this film, the very long riff on different terms for pee (such as “tinkle” and “piddle”) probably are feats of comic genius to them. But as a movie that us Peter Pan complexers can relate to? Eh, not so much. Luckily, for those of us who really enjoy cute little things, “Little,” along with the two other characters competing for the uber-adorable prize—a fish with a bowl on his head and a furry orange...
...glance over Saturday’s plain-clothed audience confirmed that there was no “again” about it for many people in attendance. This production will mostly appeal to those who like their gleeful pan-sexuality without a side of good-natured sexual harassment and prefer to get home before...
...Tines, who has a single. “From a design standpoint, I’m more practical and detail-oriented.” In his room, a strong Velcro adhesive holds gold fabric to the walls, and framed sheet music hangs from gold rope and an ingeniously-used pan rack. The room has a warm, subdued atmosphere. “It feels like an extension of my house,” he says. By contrast, McClure, the self-proclaimed “normal one,” fills his single with a Beatles poster, his bicycle, and flyers...