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...While their inspirational performance at this World Cup might seem like a bolt from the blue, Japan's football skills have been under development for a decade. Much of the credit for this year's breakthrough inevitably goes to their fire-breathing dragon of a coach, Philippe Troussier. The French import, known for gesticulating wildly on the sidelines while his interpreter perfectly mimics his antics, once taunted his players for being pampered babies whose play lacked passion. This is no longer an issue. "Their midfield play is superb," says Leonardo, the Brazilian giant from the 1994 winning World Cup team...
...fairy tales he heard as a boy from the Padaung's bewitching tribeswomen, still better known today as "long necks" or "giraffe women" for the heavy brass coils they wear around their throats. They taught him their colorful creation myth: the tribe was born of a lovelorn she-dragon impregnated by the wind. One grandmother recalls a European journey that prefigures Khoo Thwe's own. In the 1930s she joined a troupe of Padaung women who toured England in a circus freak show?although grandma never doubted who the real freaks were. "The English are a very strange tribe...
Michelle Yeoh, Asia's most glamorous fighting woman, radiated strength and luster as she trod up the 24 red-carpeted steps to the Grand Palace. The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star shared a spot on the Cannes Film Festival's nine-member jury with Indonesia's Christine Hakim?the first time two Asian actresses had been chosen for this distinguished panel. Another Cannes first: a Bollywood musical, Devdas, was part of the official selection, luring Indian mega-muffin Shahrukh Khan to this dappled Riviera town. For the fifth time in six years, at least one major prize went...
With her newfound artistic freedom, Prescott has explored a number of art forms. She plans to publish Amanda and the Dragon, a children’s story about a girl who visits a cathedral, where she finds a dragon whom she tames, as he tames...
DIED. SIHUNG LUNG, 72, Taiwanese actor who played key roles in director Ang Lee's best-known films, including last year's Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (he was Sir Te, the sage court official who receives the 400-year-old sword); of liver failure; in Taipei...