Word: kung
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First-year Jacquelyn Y. Kung, however, wasn’t quite over the struggle it had been to get in. Coming from a small town in Texas, it hadn’t been an easy path. “Each college counselor was assigned to 300 students, so when I wasn’t a troublemaker I didn’t get much of their attention. Once at Harvard, I found commonality in a lack of information,” she says...
...Harvard, Kung began assembling a team to continue these seminars across the country in an effort to help primarily underprivileged students for whom information about colleges is scarce—but essential in getting them to any form of higher education...
...result, in the summer of ’99, Kung started “College Matters,” an education non-profit run by students and directed towards spreading information on the nuts and bolts of getting into top schools across the country. She began by conducting a seminar on college admissions in her hometown, and quickly packed her city hall with eager soon-to-be high school graduates and parents...
...went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best stunts and showed them to Bangkok director Prachya Pinkaew. The filmmaker was dazzled but had problems getting backing for a film...
...more data the parties have, and the more ways they search, collate, cross-reference and puree them, using data-mining kung fu perfected by generations of direct marketers, the more precisely they can tailor their pitches to individual voters. Undecided black housewives under 35 will get very different phone calls from the Kerry campaign than Hispanic CEOs over 60. Data mining also helps the parties find, and sway, those all-important swing voters. "Now we can identify individuals within a neighborhood, in a state, in a market, where we never would have gone and looked before," says Juan Proa?...