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...Working with three female leads was an emotional experience on and off camera. "It was a little troublesome," Yuen admits. The three were competitive but lax about training. "So I played a little trick on them. I filmed a Shu Qi scene and then edited it, put in music and enhanced the action so it looked really, really good. I didn't show it to her though: I showed it to the other girls. They took a look at the video and said 'Oh my gosh she's doing so well! Can we match that?' After that, everyone started training...
...those of bowling leagues. As a result, sailing "draws from a far deeper pipeline today," says Nick Craw, head of U.S. Sailing, which serves as the national competitive governing body and runs popular youth summer camps. But as sailing turns into a more plebeian--read: more crowded--activity, lax maritime safety becomes a concern, just as it has with powerboating. Hence sailing associations' insistence on certification standardization, which has stiffened safety and emergency-procedure training...
State Republican Party leaders and White House officials have in recent weeks sought to deflect political fallout from the controversy surrounding the collapse of Enron and WorldCom and the rash of high profile earnings restatements. Several have argued that problems with lax oversight began during the Clinton administration, pointing out that many of Enron’s questionable deals occurred during the 1990s...
...Enron would never have been discovered in Europe." James Leisenring, who is helping draft International Accounting Standards, on the Continent's lax regulations...
...This lax attitude may change as awareness of the dangers of Alprax begins to spread. In March, socialite Natasha Singh was found dead outside a New Delhi hotel. Police concluded she had committed suicide by jumping from the roof. An autopsy revealed she had swallowed more than 30 Alprax tablets before her death. Singh, who reportedly suffered from depression, was a champion of Alprax and used it almost compulsively, according to her friends...