Word: ren
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...exactly like the hugely successful Broadway show. Which was exactly the problem. Timid Matthew Broderick and loutish Nathan Lane are funny from $100 theater seats, but from $9 movie seats, they're assaultive. Audiences want more subtlety and more cinematic images, like the press conference scene in Chicago, when Renée Zellweger is a marionette on strings pulled by Richard Gere. "We're not interested in recreating a show for film, we're interested in reinventing a show for film," says Meron's producing partner Craig Zadan...
...Sundquist ’09. He described the proposal as a “quiet issue” that would nonetheless significantly improve students’ everyday lives. Sundquist began by contacting several Asian-American groups to ask for their support, and Asian-American Association (AAA) Co-President Ren “Jimmy” Zhao ’08 confirmed that his organization will support the UC proposal. Zhao was given the e-mail address “Zhao2@fas,” and the freshman class alone boasts aliases Zhang32, Zhang34, and Zhang39. It seems that getting...
...Chinese don’t understand us, and we don’t understand them,” she said. “We can contribute a lot to bridging that cultural gap.” Co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Ren J. Zhao ’08, said he enjoyed the meeting. “Secretary Chao is a huge figure in the Asian American community,” Zhao said. “It was a huge honor to see her in person.” Chao spoke to students after a luncheon meeting...
...Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe, and locals said at first that they were unaware of Lin Liang Ren's activities - though some had noticed the blue overalls and weird fishing nets dumped in the garbage outside a rundown house in one inner-city neighborhood. He had allocated new illegals to his various properties, trucking them to the Morecambe mudflats and profiting from their labor while they earned less than a few dollars per day. In the tight-lipped Liverpool Chinese community, such business deals had gone unquestioned...
...Liverpool explained, "There are four reasons people don't want to mess with these gangs: your limbs." One survivor of the cockle picker tragedy, Lin Guo, gave evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom as his family in China, who live in the same village as Lin Liang Ren's relatives, had already been threatened and his father beaten. Perhaps Little Lin, on the coast of China, dreaming of a restaurant in Cambridge, is right after all; there are ways in which Fujian and Britain are closer to each other than you might think...