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This year, Harvard’s team included Daniel H. Thomas ’05, Marc R. Esserman ’05, Victor M. Lee ’05, Yue Wu ’03 (vice president), Lu Yin ’02 (president), and Jason Rihel (GSAS). The Harvard faculty adviser was Noam Elkies, professor of mathematics, who faced Aniruddha Deshpande, the faculty representative from Yale...
...minor setback this year,” said Yin, who has been associated with the club since he was a first-year...
Michael, a feckless Hong Kong singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...perhaps the most impressive of the talented cast is Carla Gugino. As Yulaw’s lover Massie, she is sultry and dangerous, an archetype that appears only briefly onscreen. But it is as TK, Gabriel’s wife, that she shines. She is tough and sensitive, the yin to Li’s yang. Her eyes convey love and her lips, passion, making the marital relationship so real, so poignant. The romantic angle of the typical action movie is often the most neglected and the most clichéd. But the scriptwriters take great pains to flesh...
...shui, the ancient Chinese art of arranging a person's belongings to place her in harmony with her nature and surroundings. Nancilee Wydra, author of Feng Shui for Children's Spaces, explains that childhood is already such a "yang," or active, state that parents need to balance it with "yin" spaces and objects, such as small hiding places and low beds. (For more, visit nancileewydra.com...