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...grin stretching across his bronzed face. "Everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing on a big stage planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King of Racewalking | 5/23/2004 | See Source »

Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, held a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday afternoon to protest the verdict with Genser and a number of members of U.S. Congress...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Student Sentenced To Chinese Prison | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

Last month, the State Department began investigating reports that Yang had been physically abused in prison. According to Fu, Yang was moved last month to solitary confinement where he was handcuffed, prevented from exercising and denied access to his lawyer...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Student Sentenced To Chinese Prison | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

...might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well not exist?except that it can be plainly seen from miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Buddha? | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...takes the motion out of motion pictures comes his latest movie, Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Tsai opens this radical experiment in minimalist extremes in the middle of a ferocious rainstorm; the night before it is scheduled to be closed, a grand old Taipei theater is showing the landmark 1966 kung fu film Dragon Inn to a scattered handful of ghostlike characters, including a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) apparently cruising for gay men. The crippled, young ticket taker (Chen Shiang-chyi) stalks the venue in search of the mysterious projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng)?perhaps she's in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exquisite Tedium | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

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