Word: womanizes
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...matter of Chinachem Charitable Foundation Ltd v. Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman who wore her hair in pigtails, dressed like Lolita and answered to the nickname Little Sweetie), two conflicting wills were produced. One bequeathed her $4.2 billion estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by her siblings. The other was flaunted by feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed...
...because there was no better alternative. I am happy with what his government has done so far, which is vastly more that any fractious, self-opinionated, center-left alliance did in the past. Many members of his Cabinet like the Ministers of Finance, Agriculture, the Interior, Environment (a woman), Instruction (another woman) and the Disaster Relief Agency are delivering good results. Ms. Carfagna is not just a pretty partygoer, her achievements as Minister for Equal Opportunities are hard to deny. Among the voters who elected Berlusconi were many urban professionals, well educated, cosmopolitan, weary of the stiff-upper-lipped intelligentsia...
Here's a riddle: If a woman is denied a mammogram at age 40 and dies at 45 of breast cancer, how much money does her insurance company save...
...recent weeks two landowners have immolated themselves to protest confiscation of their property. In November a 47-year-old woman in the southwestern city of Chengdu lit her self on fire to protest an effort to tear down a commercial building that the authorities said was illegally constructed. State television broadcast footage, shot with a bystander's cellphone, showing the woman igniting herself on the structure's rooftop and flames rising up around her. The woman, Tang Fuzhen, died two weeks later from her injuries. And, on Dec. 14 in a suburb of Beijing, a man, attempting to prevent...
...Queen shaping her own destiny, the movie tilts the balance of romantic power somewhat, giving us a Victoria gradually won over by Albert's attentions. He grumbles to his brother about the political nature of the courtship ("What do you say about a man who waits for a rich woman?"), but he's soon got the mushy look of a man more than ready to fulfill his duty. The suggestion is that he'll offer her an alliance of equals. Discussing the subject of husbands and political games over a chess match, he tells her, "I should recommend you find...