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China's fledgling manned space program can benefit the world. As a science student, I think the research we do is for the advancement of all mankind, not for one particular country. Only through collaboration among all nations can we explore the areas that humans have never before reached. Chan Sin Hang Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 2003 | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...series of interlocked, chronologically jumbled fights, Kill Bill plays like a nonstop compilation of, say, Jackie Chan's best fights (pow! wow! ow!) or NFL players' most gruesome injuries (Joe Theisman! Frank Gifford! Darryl Stingley!). Yet this is no mere homicidal homage. Tarantino may make a fool of himself on Jay Leno's couch, but he is a stylist of ferocious skill and audacity. So Kill Bill both re-creates the old films--which, after all, represent some of the purest, most cinematic ingenuity ever--and expands them into a daring new dimension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: And Now...Pulp Friction | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...Knopf; 516 pages). Oddly, it's one of two published this month--the other is Gary Fishgall's Gonna Do Great Things (Scribner; 448 pages)--but it would take at least a dozen volumes to capture a life that encompassed tapping with Bojangles and making Cannonball Run with Jackie Chan. Haygood's book is the more interesting of the two, mostly because it's less sympathetic. Davis was a man who would do anything to be liked, and that's a mistake Haygood wisely avoids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Made Sammy Dance? | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...open-minded and allow Chinese scientists to participate in professional conferences. As a science student, I think the research we do is for the advancement of all mankind, not for one particular country. Only through collaboration among all nations can we explore the areas that humans have never reached. Chan Sin Hang Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...should stay until we've gotten Iraq on to the road to a liberal democracy with a reviving economy to boot. To do so otherwise is not only giving up Iraq to terrorists (albeit of a different sort), but a direct betrayal of our democratic roots and ideals. Eric Chan San Diego, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How soon should the U.S. hand over control of Iraq to the Iraqis? | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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