Word: wanly
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...Wan Yanhai, China's most prominent AIDS activist, knows the importance of staying in touch. So on Aug. 24 when he stopped answering his cell phone, his wife was immediately alarmed. A week later, Wan is still missing. Human rights groups say he may have been arrested in Beijing for speaking out about China's growing AIDS crisis. The Shanghai-trained doctor has run afoul of authorities before, most recently in July when his Beijing-based AIDS Action Project was stripped of its legal status and forced to vacate its offices on a research institute campus. But if Wan...
...David A. Wan took over as CEO of HBSP in April, less than a week before Wetlaufer resigned...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) searches the rooms of Brian M. Wan ’05 and Michael D. Wang ’05 after the were accused of several thefts from Greenough Hall. HUPD could not comment on an ongoing investigation. Wan leaves Harvard after the incident and Wang moves out of his Greenough residence into a room in Canaday, according to several students...
...plot? It's boy (Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen) remeets girl (Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala), and a noble Jedi knight (Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious...
...about this crusading pioneer was that he was a bit of a racist. Or, anyway, a shade-ist. Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense...