Word: changefulness
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...There was a reluctance [on the IOP's part] to get involved because the issues were less clear then," said event organizer Sophia M. Chang, a third-year HLS and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student...
Last year's intended forum on the Wen Ho Lee case turned into one discussing the Japanese-American internment, an issue Chang said was thought to apply to a broader audience because of its World War II context...
...While Chang and Ethan Yeh '03, who helped organize the forum, said they were pleased with the discussion and with the crowd diversity, some audience members said they wished more persons of non-Asian descent had attended the event...
...fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping, who had won international acclaim for his work on The Matrix and was bound to tangle with the soft-spoken, hard-to-budge Lee; a top-flight all-Asian cast featuring Chow Yun Fat (Hong Kong), Michelle Yeoh (Malaysia), Zhang Ziyi (Beijing) and Chang Chen (Taiwan). Only one of the stars--Zhang, then a 19-year-old ingenue--spoke anything like the classical mainland Mandarin that Lee demanded...
Before shooting, Zhang and her young screen lover Chang worked with an acting coach. Chow and Yeoh crammed to speak Mandarin. And throughout, Lee was learning the limitations in the laws of stunt physics from the martial master Yuen. Movies are an education on the fly, with pop quizzes every moment. How apt, then, that the theme of Crouching Tiger should be teaching. In this war of the generations, the adults are as eager to instruct the young as the kids are to rebel against authority. In life as in martial arts, knowledge is power. And only the most powerful...