Word: jie
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...girls who dream of becoming the next Mia Hamm, stare at a television screen, jaws agape. They are watching a promo for the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the American professional league that featured the best female players in the world, including Hamm, Brazil's Katia and Bai Jie of China. Brandi Chastain knocks a header into the net. England's Kelly Smith shakes a defender. Unbelievable, the girls say. We can make a living in the game we love...
...They are, in a word, conflicted. Fresh off the boat from a rubber plantation in Malaysia, young Xiao Jie (living anim? Lee Sinjie) dreams of Mando-pop stardom, only to have her career derailed by a depressive manager (Anthony Wong, dressed like an Iron Maiden roadie) and her heart hijacked by her singing partner (Kate Yeung), who takes more than a professional interest in her. Xiang Xiang (Liu) is a jaded flight attendant with Bridget Jones problems: lots of men to date, none to come home to. And then there's freshly divorced Lily (Chang), who gets back into...
...China's selection two years ago to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, when Beijingers thronged Tiananmen Square to celebrate their national ascendancy. "If it succeeds, expect a sudden propaganda campaign to instill feelings of patriotism and nationalism and unite the people around new national heroes," says political commentator Yu Jie...
...CHARGED. PARK JIE WON and LIM DONG WON, former South Korean government officials, and CHUNG MONG HUN, chairman of Hyundai Asan, with violations in connection with the 2000 summit between the two Koreas; in Seoul. Park (pictured), a top aide to Kim Dae Jung, then South Korea's President, was charged with having abused his authority. Chung and Lim, another Kim aide, were charged with having violated foreign-currency regulations. The Hyundai Group sent $500 million to North Korea months before the historic summit, the first since the Korean War ended in 1953. An investigation found that $100 million...
...grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River Phoenix and Zhu Jie...