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...quite a workout for the stars. But Yuen is revered as the deviser of artful torture for Asia's top actor-athletes: Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Samo Hung (The Magnificent Butcher, 1979), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master, 1993) and Yeoh (Wing Chun, 1994). Yeoh's glorious balancing act with a plate of tofu is rightly famed: she never lets it touch the ground while successfully fending off an arrogant bruiser. But just as impressive is a scene with Wo-ping himself, in the 1983 Shaolin Drunkard, where he and brother Yat-choh quaff a hundred cups...
...office says he no longer starts the day with a "Western-style breakfast." Starbucks skim lattes are in, for both Dick and wife Lynne, when they can get them. During Inauguration week, the Cheneys barred chocolate, nuts and other fatty snacks from their Madison Hotel suite. And Cheney's butcher told TIME that the Vice President hasn't been coming by as often for his favorite cuts--porterhouse and rib-eye steaks. On his recent visits to the Someplace Special Giant Gourmet in McLean, Va., says meat manager Tim Bowman, Cheney moseyed right past the meat counter. "I guess...
...little more noble and transcendent - the last President Bush wasn?t so foolhardy as to ask Americans to send their sons and daughters to die on foreign soil in order to keep the nation?s gas pumps turning over. No, the pretext had to be more gallant. Enter the "Butcher of Baghdad" - whereas the U.S. had been happy to supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been, and begin painting him as a latter...
...element in mobilizing Americans was the invoking of Hitler's ghost, and the idea of the Butcher of Baghdad on the march terrorizing his neighbors. Americans hate a bully, and many of them are willing to step in when they see one beating up on weaker people. And it's those instincts that have to be tapped whenever the nation?s leaders choose to make...
...bombardment that began on January 16, beamed live into America's living rooms by CNN, was imagined in the U.S. as some sort of crusade for justice. Hence the frustration and confusion attached to the fact that a decade after Washington proclaimed victory, the Butcher of Baghdad is still in power, still terrorizing his people (even if his neighbors are a lot safer), and still in command of a vast and deadly military...