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...phone rings. "We got the princess!" shouts hisassistant, who has taken a few days off work at the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy to help Wangyal out. He's referring to a royal from Katoch, a nearby hillstation: "She'll be a judge." Wangyal beams and yelps, "Woo-hooo!" punching his fist in the air. "Four judges and four contestants." The pageant may not be adisaster after...
Improving the package for students comes in many forms, but one very visible factor is financial aid. Schools in the Ivy League—and other institutions that only offer need-based aid—cannot target and woo individual students with merit scholarships. Instead, they increase overall levels of need-based aid to attract many members of an incoming class. For fear of losing the best applicants, therefore, competing schools cannot allow their rivals to offer significantly higher need-based aid packages...
...Sincerity alone won't be enough to get the new zone off the ground. Sinuiju is short of everything an economic hub needs to operate, including decent roads, commercial transport and proper water facilities. Yang intends to woo international banks to finance infrastructure projects. Similar funding has been sought in the past without much success. In the mid-1990s, Pyongyang tried to lure capital to North Korea's Rajin-Sonbong free trade zone, which also has its own legal code, but little has been developed. In a black box of a state where assessing political risk is like reading chicken...
...like Toronto's: impassioned visions colliding with one another, shouting or mewling for the attention of the browsing movie lover. And unlike other fests, this one has a longtime fondness for Asian films. In the '80s, Toronto introduced North American audiences to Hong Kong's top action directors, John Woo and Tsui Hark; in 1994 it ran a retrospective of Mani Ratnam's Tamil-language politicized melodramas...
...Chinese rule, the territory's thriving film community lost much of its spark. For decades, domestic product out-grossed the big Hollywood offerings, but Hong Kong has become just another struggling local mini-industry. Part of the problem is the brain drain to the U.S. of directors like Woo and top stars Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. Even the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Australian Emigr? whose bold, painterly eye set the palette for Wong Kar-wai's moody dramas, has gone traveling again...