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Styles and settings barely begin the contrasts between Roger Staubach and Joe Namath, new Hall of Fame quarterbacks from the Naval Academy and Alabama, Dallas and New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, they were on the opposite ends of every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also...
...countries have been been growing closer for some three decades, since Australia gave diplomatic recognition to the communist People's Republic in 1972. China's growth and reform have continued with barely a blip since 1978. But trade and the movement of people go back a lot further, as Fu Ying, China's Ambassador to Australia, notes. "The history, habits and nature of our peoples have laid the foundations for the extension of relations," she says. "We are able to understand each other...
...Since 1996, Howard's practical diplomacy - focused on deals, dialog and trade - has been well received by Beijing. "The comfort level is rising," says Ambassador Fu. Howard speaks of a "partnership for prosperity" between the two countries. "When we think about the future of Australia in the world, we inevitably think of a world where China will play a much larger role," he said last month, in an address to Sydney's Lowy Institute for International Policy. "China's economic dynamism is something we feel palpably in this country." In the 1840s, thousands of Chinese indentured laborers and free settlers...
...lion's roar scream that rattles windows a continent away. Into the alley wanders Sing (Chow), a loser punk who is desperate to be an Axe man. But destiny has another, redemptive scenario in store. This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung fu genius--just the fellow to do battle against that legendary killer the Beast (Leung Siu-lung...
Chow, 42, seems to have been preparing for Kung Fu Hustle all his life. As a boy mesmerized by Bruce Lee films, he studied kung fu techniques. In his first TV job, as host of the daytime show Space Shuttle 430, he learned how to amuse kids with sly jokes and an impudent eloquence in body language. He became a film star as the little guy with false bravado who lucks into hero status. That's the formula here, but this time Chow doesn't take center stage until the last half an hour. Instead he uses his old comic...