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...crash; in Denver, Colorado (see Eulogy). DIED. PAM BAKER, 71, gutsy lawyer and human rights activist; in Macclesfield, England. Baker spent 19 years in Hong Kong championing the rights of battered women and underprivileged mainlanders as well as trying to secure refugee status for Vietnamese boat people. HONORED. PAU GASOL, 21, as the National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year; in Memphis, Tennessee. A native of Spain, the 2.13-m starting forward for the Memphis Grizzlies is the first European to win the award. SENTENCED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 78, colorful principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby...
...Hoop and Glory Spanish basketball star Pau Gasol, a first-round pick in the 2001 NBA draft, became leading scorer for the Memphis Grizzlies. But he was held to only six points against the Washington Wizards, whose faltering form was rescued by the return of creaking 38-year-old Michael Jordan...
...Christmas / And all through the place / The joy had all drained / From Jordan’s fat face.” Then, you’ve got your wish list-themed columns. “Oh, and for Christmas this year, let’s get Memphis Grizzlies forward Pau Gasol a letter ‘L,’ so he can put one on the end of his first name...
...Cheung and Alex Law, her director-producer partner, are the best scriptwriters in Hong Kong. And a film whose theme is extremes finds an ideal cinematographer in Peter Pau, working for the first time since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. We get a gently pulsing Beijing nightscape saturated with promise; a lens that relaxes when it needs to, then agitates and finds its focus. Director Ang Lee thinks Pau is the best cinematographer anywhere, and on this evidence, the lensman rocks...
...Hong Kong women come despite clean, government-approved alternatives at home. Paul Yip Sui-fai of the University of Hong Kong's statistics and actuarial science department says that thousands are making the quick trip across the border for a cheap, painless procedure. Adds Angela Pau, spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Family Planning Association: "Almost one-third of women we surveyed admitted to going to the mainland for abortions...