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...film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Crouching Tiger wannabe with Zhao as a general's rebellious daughter; and Zhang Yuan's Green Tea, in which she plays two roles, a mousy student and a sexy pianist. Now she's gone to broody melodrama, as a cop conflicted by love and honor...
...sounds like Jack White might if he were a girl, and went to art college. But Susman has some vocal chops entirely her own: the supersonic double punch she delivers on “On Parade” is neither screech nor wail, but somewhere between a radar ping and a rock ‘n roll yelp. In fact, for all its artsyness, the music is irrepressibly, slyly cool, from the sly strut that accompanies Mr. Sassoon to the lush indie-pop of “Enter Smiling.” If all art were this much fun, museums...
...according to the fund rating company Lipper. While nobody tracks how much new European money is flowing into these funds, all of them report strong demand. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, one of China's largest insurers, telecom company China Netcom Corp. and possibly China Construction Bank, one of the mainland's four largest banks. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Chinese companies will raise $10 billion in IPOs in Hong Kong this year; about 50% more than...
...Every contact we seemed to have was dropping like flies,” Chopra said. “The Undergraduate Council was going to do a lot more reacting...stop[ping] bad things from happening instead of making good things happen...
...China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, telecom company China Netcom Corp., and possibly China Construction Bank, one of the mainland's four largest banks. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Chinese companies will raise $10 billion in IPOs in Hong Kong this year, about 50% more than...