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...Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving...
...four children by four men. She tries her best to take care of the kids, but she has also lived with a man who beat her in front of them. (``He never, ever touched the kids,'' she says defensively. ``You gotta give him that.'') Once, when she and her brood were staying in a welfare hotel, she locked them inside the flat and went to a pub; there was a fire, and the children were injured. Social Services removed them to foster homes...
...does care for her kids and tries her best to take care of them, but she has also lived with a man who beat her in front of her children. ("He never, ever touched the kids," she says defensively. "You gotta give him that.") Once, when she and her brood were staying in a welfare hotel, she locked them inside the flat and went to a pub; there was a fire, and the children were injured. Social Services removed them to foster homes...
Neighbors in the black working-class neighborhood called Roseland still remember the day Janie Fields moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house with her brood: nearly all her 10 children and 30 grandchildren lived with her at one time or another. "They are dirty and noisy, and they are ruining the neighborhood," complained a neighbor. Residents launched an unsuccessful petition drive to force Fields out. "All those kids are little troublemakers," said Carl McClinton, 23, who lives down the street. "This is the kind of neighborhood where we all look after each other's kids, but they...
Presiding over this brood of prospects and scufflers is manager Howie Freiling, 28, who never saw the Bigs. "I had a cup of coffee in Triple A," he says with disarming candor. "I was a first baseman who didn't hit for power. The fact that I was a well-below-average runner didn't help." Pitching coach Dave LaRoche did make it to the Show, compiling a 65-58 record in a career that lasted 14 seasons. Yet the minors attract him on a gut level. "If I wasn't in baseball," LaRoche says, "I would live...