Word: pange
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...many people died and it's ridiculous that no one is to blame." TIM PANG, member of the Hong Kong Patients' Rights Association, criticizing a government study that found no one at fault in the territory's handling of last spring's sars outbreak...
...created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never...
...questions could be linked. The girls’ concern reminded me of my Balkanized high school, where the cliques identified themselves by what they wore; an unbridgeable gulf lay between the preppy soccer players and the black-clad, black-nail-polished kids (for whom I feel a nostalgic pang every time I pass the Harvard Square T station) who haunted an alcove by the soda machine; another gulf lay between those Goths and the swaggering boys who affected a gangsta style. Each of the major clothing-based castes was further subdivided; the school’s social structure...
Alas, my joyful habit of coffee drinking has been tinged with the pang of shame I now feel when I stop at a café to indulge my addiction, with the knowledge that my purchase is not helping the poor starving coffee farmers of the world. The “Fair Trade” seal is rarely on the pot or bag that I buy, and at the crack of dawn when I’ve just awoken or have yet to sleep, my yen for a good brew is much stronger than my remorse for Guatemala...
Bundchen deserved to be singled out by PETA as a heartless fur model. Many models refuse to be associated with the cruel fur trade. Those who promote fur are selling animal misery and death when humane alternatives, such as faux fur, abound. Allison Pang Portland...