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...upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation...
...Dabing and Ling Ling is a one-in-a-billion fluke, for they were childhood friends, bound by movie rapture. Most of the film flashes back to the time of the Cultural Revolution, when the two children had to make do with imagining they could watch films through the boy's "magic" binoculars. This fable of the passions and recriminations of youth is set in a dreamscape that mixes memory with wish fulfillment. It's China's Cinema Paradiso, but a much more honest, less cloying film...
...Duff). But we have a deeply ambivalent relationship with intellectually gifted kids. For every lovable Doogie Howser, M.D., we fear there's also a William James Sidis. Little William was born in 1898 to an experimentally minded psychologist, Boris Sidis. He trotted William through school so quickly that the boy was enrolled at Harvard by age 11. William graduated with a math degree at 16, but soon after he lost interest in math and spent much of his life working at clerical jobs and writing esoteric books. Boris Sidis had offered his prodigy to the public as proof that young...
...fight to have Tri-County Community School teach Davin at a level commensurate with his rare intelligence--he has an IQ of 146--began when he was in first grade. Davin was always bored, but instead of recognizing his academic promise, Knipfer says, the school carped about her boy's fidgeting and poor handwriting...
...AFFLECK can choose from any Sue or Betty. But the Boston boy whose past coupling with JENNIFER LOPEZ sent paparazzi swooning has been spied recently with another Jen--JENNIFER GARNER. Are the two a pair or just pals? Their publicists won't comment. Time...