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Course Coordinator Gwendolyn A. Wong said that given mistakes made last year, the price hike was unavoidable...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Economics Sourcebooks See Price Hike | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...stories. But today's rebel has to figure out how to alienate today's been-there, smoked-that elders, so the Rude Boys aim straight at the squishy heart of baby-boom values. On the simplest level, this means offending boomer tolerance: there's Eminem; there's Mr. Wong, the animated series at Icebox.com about an elderly Chinese houseboy, which, depending on whom you ask, cleverly subverts or shamelessly perpetuates an ethnic stereotype. But these insurgents also attack the cult of self-esteem, the notion, advanced in the protest and therapy movements, that everyone has dignity, that positive self-image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Boys | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...just cool--he is going to inspire us," Class Marshal Xunhua Wong '01 said of Bono...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock Star Named Class Day Speaker | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

...civilian rule in Taiwan there was little destructive "progress," and many low brick and tile traditional houses have survived long after their mainland counterparts have been replaced with concrete boxes. The village of Shanhou was built at the end of the 19th century to house various branches of the Wong family, successful traders who had returned to the island. The elegant curves of the roof ridges end in the skyward pointing "swallow tails" once typical of southeast China. Some houses are filled with period furnishings and costumes, and the family shrine still represents the family's departed ancestors. A winding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Journey Not War on Kinmen Island | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...forever?" This being a film noir, Shanghai-style, she has to drown in the dirty Suzhou River, then re-emerge as someone else. She could be Kim Novak in Vertigo, hijacked into a James M. Cain plot and photographed in the grainy, high-contrast glamour of a Wong Kar-wai romance. Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys--all in 79 minutes. So it's in Mandarin? After Crouching Tiger that's no longer an excuse for missing a terrific movie. Whatever city this one is showing in...move there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Suzhou River | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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