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Starlet and Tycoon

Alice Poon
Mar 02, 2011
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I guess for most people the most eye-catching words in the headline of a recent SCMP news report would be the name Richard Li. If the sole purpose of the headline were to catch eyeballs, the name alone would be more than adequate. But the words that jumped at me are “starlet” and “tycoon”. One would not doubt that the oxymoronic use of these two words w…

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