Word: hao
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...Winners YAO MING Chinese star first in NBA draft. Yao will teach Shaq the meaning of the phrase ni hao while Shaq will teach Yao the meaning of the word pain SADDAM HUSSEIN Dictator's novels will be taught in Iraq's schools. Saddam would have preferred Oprah's Book Club, but this should help sales as well COUNT ALVARO DE MARICHALAR Spanish aristocrat crosses the Atlantic on a jet ski. He will return from the Indies with his craft laden with gold and spices Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA Tennis fem-bot upset at Wimbledon, then blows...
...World Championships in Cardiff, Wales. As is his custom, he showered before the tournament and not again until it was over?"so the luck won't wash off," he says?then beat players from England, Germany, Japan, fellow Filipino Francisco ("Django") Bustamante and, in the finals, Taiwan's Hao Ping-chang. Filipinos knew he was good, even great. But now he was world champion, and he was theirs...
...come down from your world to mine," says a frustrated Hao-hao to his girlfriend Vicky. "That's why you don't understand my world." Don't blame the poor girl: nobody else gets it either, and that includes both Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien and, very likely, his audience. Hou has swapped his wonted rural palette for the urban hip of Taipei, but for all his efforts to capture the contemporary, Mambo feels mute...
...film opens with a sound-tracked, slo-mo Vicky (Shu Qi) striding across a flyover at night, with the camera at her back. Time enough for her to tell us in narration that she frequently breaks up with Hao-hao, but he always tracks her down. He begs her to come back and, as if hypnotized, she always returns. Turns out she does p.r. for a nightclub and is torn between Hao-hao and Jack, an older man who visits the club. Mad with jealousy, Hao-hao checks Vicky's telephone bills, receipts, even her smell, for signs of extracurricular...
...into a sex crime: physical evidence suggested the victim had had passive anal sex shortly before his death. A fingerprint check came up with his identity, as it would for most males in Taiwan, who are printed before the island-state's two-year manadatory military service: Lin Chih-hao, a 20-year-old accounting student at Taipei University who lived with his parents. Classmates described Lin as a perfectionist...