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...woman who had died a thousand deaths on screen now died for real. And the story of her life traced the arc of triumph and tragedy that marked so many of her films. Wong's youthful ambition and screen appeal got her farther than anyone else of her race. But her race, or rather Hollywood's and America's fear of giving Chinese and other non-whites the same chance as European Americans, kept her from reaching the Golden Mountaintop. We can be startled and impressed by the success she, alone, attained. And still we ask: Who knows what Anna...
...rich world's jobs will be "outsourced" to India and China or because people believe that cheap labor in India and China will drive down wages everywhere else, the rise of the two Asian giants is now viewed as a threat as much as it is a triumph. Globalization has been turned around from something that makes poor people poorer to a phenomenon that makes rich people poor...
...policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers conveyed vivid street tales, but permeated them with a sense of triumph over abominable conditions. After this pinnacle, gangsta rap suffered a creative crisis from which it has yet to emerge...
...with the unions. Each sector controls one-third of the votes in the electoral college Labour must convene when it chooses its leader. Although there are other ministers who would win the endorsement of parliamentary colleagues - the final bloc in the electoral college - the Chancellor would almost certainly triumph in an election to succeed the Prime Minister, if Blair stood down voluntarily...
...Boston Red Sox fans, both living and dead, the baseball season was a historic high: a come-from-behind victory over the hated Yankees in the play-offs, followed by the team's first World Series triumph in 86 years. But for the rest of the U.S., the sports year was one to forget. And we're not just talking about Kobe Bryant's rape case. A rundown of the swings and misses of 2004. --By Sean Gregory...