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...those sorts of sentiments running through Li's film corpus. In Bruce Lee's action movies, the Eurasian outsider fought for no greater cause than himself (the sole exception is 1972's Fist of Fury, in which he battled the cocksure Japanese). Jackie Chan made the action-comedy subgenre his own, reducing martial arts to a form of slapstick. Li, however, has most often played the sober upholder of national pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...starting in the ’80s, the store began its celebrated speaker series—which has featured such authors as Salman Rushdie, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former Crimson Vice President Jennifer 8. Lee...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life in Books Recalled | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

While not in a stadium packed with 31,398 football fans this weekend, the Crimson polo players had their own face off with their Eli rivals. “Don’t beat them by just a little bit,” Tommy Lee Jones ’69 told the polo team before the game, held yesterday afternoon at the Canter Brook Equestrian Center in Hamilton, Mass. “What he said definitely fueled us for the match,” said captain Nicholas B. Snow ’09. “He really wanted...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jones Supports Polo Team Versus Yale | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...depth on the women’s side. “Everyone’s there working together, so if one person’s gone, there’s another one there to pick it up.” Sophomores Nichole Slykhous, Meghan Cleary, and Thea Lee and freshmen Jeanne Mack, Alison Lee, Elizabeth Heller, and Kirsten Jorgenson also competed in the race. For the men, freshman Dan Stiles led the Crimson with a 39th-place, 26:05 finish in the five-mile race, down from his 26:27 finish at Heps. Sophomore Ryan Neely and rookie Stephen Couch...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Legs Run Strong | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...page book written by the Heritage Foundation in 1981, Mandate For Leadership, became the blueprint for the incoming administration of Ronald Reagan. The book was placed on the seat of all the Reagan Cabinet officials at their first meeting, making about 2,000 recommendations for how Reagan should govern. Lee Edwards, a Heritage historian, estimates that about 60% of its ideas were adopted in whole or in part by Reagan. "We are a little flattered by what the Center for American Progress is doing," Edwards says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Obama's Idea Factory in Washington | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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