Word: charme
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...third time’s the charm, or so they say. And faced with its third-consecutive NCAA playoff appearance, the Harvard men’s hockey team certainly hopes that is the case when it faces off against Maine tonight at 5 p.m. at the NCAA’s East Regional in Albany...
...really is an opportunity you might have only once in your college career. The men’s team travels to the NCAA Tournament for the third straight time, having lost in the first round each of the last two years, and for the third time to be the charm they just might need to have a crowd that will rival the large contingent that the Black Bears are sure to bring to Albany. And the women’s team has a very real chance to win only its second national championship in program history...
...femme action movie So Close, co-starring Shu Qi and Hong Kong's Karen Mok, Zhao plays a hacker hottie with her usual winsome charm. She (or her stunt and computer-graphic doubles) gets to pirouette over stairwell railings, jump from atop one speeding elevator to another and duel furiously with legendary villain Yasuaki Kurata. But when asked to sum up her defining characteristic?contrasted in the film with Shu Qi's beauty and sexiness, and with Karen Mok's coolness and big personality?Zhao pauses pensively, and says to her interviewer: "At the time, I really didn't know...
...head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Crouching Tiger wannabe with Zhao as a general's rebellious daughter; and Zhang Yuan's Green Tea, in which she plays two roles, a mousy student and a sexy pianist...
...teeming station 10 minutes before departure, pull your ticket from a machine and glide onto the train without any inspection of your ID or your bags. Your shoes are of no interest to anyone. It's as if Amtrak has been exempted from modernity, and all the fuzzy charm of taking the train remains untouched by time...