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...friendly neighborhood international student? You know, the one who speaks in the strange accent using words nobody (or at least no one American) ever uses? The one who looks up momentarily when you start talking about “football,” only to realize with a sigh that you’re only discussing the other football, the one the barbarians in helmets play? Like many of these strange people from far-away countries, I came from India to this Mecca of education expecting to be a proud representative of my nation. Unfortunately, I’ve found...
...that can crease into the world's biggest, brightest smile, she expresses direct, unvarnished emotion. She has the gift of communicating, subtly and immediately, a broad range of feelings: happy, hurt, stubborn, forlorn, any or all of these in a flash, with just a flick of her head, a sigh, a glance. Movie charisma may not be easy to analyze, but it's a cinch to spot. And when Zhao shares a scene with anyone?with Jiang Wen, China's De Niro, or Hong Kong heartthrob Ekin Cheng, or bad boy Nicholas Tse?she's the one you watch...
...actress Rene Liu about her 20:30:40 co-star, co-writer and director Sylvia Chang, and she exudes a sigh that's in equal parts admiration and exhaustion. "I think she's a model for all of us women, but she's too busy!" says Liu. "She's a mother, she's a producer, an agent, a star, singer, director, and an actress." Chang politely protests, flashing the sunrise smile that has lit up more than 80 films during her 30-year career: "There's always time for the things you want...
When he heard that she hadn’t, he let out a sigh of relief and said he had a chance...
Tucked inside the 2005 budget from the Bush Administration is a proposal that may prompt you to sigh with relief if you have feared being hit with the alternative minimum tax (AMT). It's a patch--not a full-strength remedy--for a complicated tax that was designed to prevent the wealthy from avoiding taxes but is increasingly hitting the wallets of middle-class taxpayers...