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...quite a workout for the stars. But Yuen is revered as the deviser of artful torture for Asia's top actor-athletes: Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Samo Hung (The Magnificent Butcher, 1979), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master, 1993) and Yeoh (Wing Chun, 1994). Yeoh's glorious balancing act with a plate of tofu is rightly famed: she never lets it touch the ground while successfully fending off an arrogant bruiser. But just as impressive is a scene with Wo-ping himself, in the 1983 Shaolin Drunkard, where he and brother Yat-choh quaff a hundred cups...
...productivity growth is one of the Big Three variables - along with economic growth and government spending - in those glorious 10-year surplus projections that make George W. Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut possible to swallow fiscally. And yes, productivity growth slowed in the last quarter of 2000 to 2.4 percent, compared to a whopping 4.3 figure for 2000 overall...
...book does just that, about a subject she knows well as the mother of an autistic child. "It was a very difficult book to write because I had to stay honest," she says. "Sometimes I read these accounts of mothers with autistic children... They write this glorious story of overcoming difficulties. But I walk the difficulties, and I wanted that to come across...
...opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly toppled the government of Corazon Aquino. This has been one of the unintended and unfortunate legacies of People Power: that a coup, popular or otherwise, is considered a legitimate - glorious even - way to transfer power...
...past few years, he has been stumbling from one pseudo crusade to another, likening every minor crisis--the expulsion of six roughnecks from a Decatur, Ill., high school; the supposed lynching of a Mississippi youth, which turned out to be a suicide--to the glorious civil rights battleground of Selma, Ala. Since last fall, he has been tussling with his former protege, Al Sharpton, who annoyed Jackson by launching a boycott of Burger King, which has long been one of Jackson's corporate allies. Not until last year's presidential campaign, when Jackson worked his heart out to help produce...