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...list in June in Hong Kong - is infused with an affection for Hong Kong's people and cityscape, as well as concern for threatened urban landmarks (a very topical preoccupation). "The movie is a way to gently vent my protest," To says. Among other directors, Sylvia Chang's accomplished triad-cum-family drama Run Papa Run, released in April, covers decades of Hong Kong's social transformation, while Ann Hui's low-key new release The Way We Are offers a compelling grass-roots community portrait...
...gaming industry was a moribund monopoly controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho (who is unrelated to Edmund). Many residents of nearby Hong Kong stayed away from the city's seedy casinos because they feared they might be caught up in the occasional burst of gunfire on the streets between rival triad gangsters...
This is the exact opposite of blaming the victim; it's blaming the customer - because Romney and his staff insist that the product itself is not flawed. "Romney represents the best candidate to continue beyond Iowa," Madden explained, patiently re-iterating the national security/social conservistism/economic conservatism triad (the fabled "Reagan coalition") that are the core competencies of brand Romney. "I don't believe Mike Huckabee has positions that are going to appeal to voters in New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina." And as for the negative ads - against both Huckabee and John McCain - that seemed to bait an already energized...
...Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) has been assigned to guard the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. against a death threat by Hong Kong triads. The ambassador is murdered by an assailant named Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), whom Lee tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen...
...company in 2000--just before the Internet-stock bubble burst--the undisclosed selling price was big enough to allow Kavli to return to the great unanswered questions of basic science that had long fascinated him. He wanted to endow major prizes for research in his astro-nano-neuro triad, the fields he thinks will produce the most exciting discoveries in the coming centuries. In particular, he wanted to finance early-stage research, the bold ideas that may be many years away from producing tangible results. Quantum physics, for example, seemed totally impractical until engineers used its findings to design...