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First-year Jacquelyn Y. Kung, however, wasn’t quite over the struggle it had been to get in. Coming from a small town in Texas, it hadn’t been an easy path. “Each college counselor was assigned to 300 students, so when I wasn’t a troublemaker I didn’t get much of their attention. Once at Harvard, I found commonality in a lack of information,” she says...
...went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best stunts and showed them to Bangkok director Prachya Pinkaew. The filmmaker was dazzled but had problems getting backing for a film...
...more data the parties have, and the more ways they search, collate, cross-reference and puree them, using data-mining kung fu perfected by generations of direct marketers, the more precisely they can tailor their pitches to individual voters. Undecided black housewives under 35 will get very different phone calls from the Kerry campaign than Hispanic CEOs over 60. Data mining also helps the parties find, and sway, those all-important swing voters. "Now we can identify individuals within a neighborhood, in a state, in a market, where we never would have gone and looked before," says Juan Proa?...
...first three weeks of her freshman year, Nicole Ali, a 17-year-old from St. Paul, Minn., has joined a kung fu club, led Pennypacker’s ultimate frisbee team to victory and discovered that “Nietzsche makes no sense whatsoever...
...also takes a supporting role and doesn't grab center screen until a climactic fight that follows his ascent into heaven to beg fight advice from the Buddha. The mouthy star wants to show he has as much skill behind the camera as in front of it, and Kung Fu proves him spectacularly right...