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...born in Singapore, and knew he wanted to perform when, at 14, he wrote and acted in a comedy sketch for his secondary school. His family, as focused on Singaporean success as the characters in his film, thought it was a rotten idea. "For my generation, our parents only concentrated on normal life, making some money so you've got food to eat," Neo remembers. "Acting, performing-my parents just didn't know. I didn't know if I had talents either." First came a string of small stage roles Neo says he can barely remember. Then television beckoned. Singapore...
...time. Although Ruth's poisoning wasn't the first reported, police judged the case a low priority. That changed two years later when Whisky, one of then Governor Chris Patten's Norfolk terriers, was poisoned (but survived). Police belatedly called Midgely in to help with a composite sketch of the suspect and later had him try to spot the man among passersby on Bowen Road...
...Part giddy bird-watcher and part environmentalist railing against big business, Matthiessen can sketch the fleeting sight of a rare blue crane beating its wings against the African sky in a few lithe words, then explain in detail the ecological effect of modern development. (Accompanying Matthiessen's descriptions are Robert Bateman's evocative illustrations, a blend of photographic naturalism and warm impressionism.) Although the writer's encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world occasionally makes the book slow going, he has an eye for essential details that cut through the nomenclature. For example: the crane has had the misfortune to live...
...talking with each other and later forming an e-mail list, several of the women said they recognized a pattern. They met with Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officials and offered details for a sketch of the man, whom they describe as a 40- to 50-year-old white male of medium build with light-grey hair...
...wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe to fanaticism...