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...show the toll it takes on the loser. Punches are fine, but no closeups of broken jaws; throw a guy off a rooftop, but don't show him landing impaled on an obelisk. Rush Hour 3 observes these niceties while twitting another MPAA rule: no four-letter words. In an early scene where Carter is interrogating a French-speaking thug through an interpreter, he gets exasperated and shouts: "You tell this piece of s-word that I will personally f-word him up." Excellent solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...told him, Bar, do not give your enemies the satisfaction of coming three home runs short. Go one past the record, then quit. Then whatever your critics say, whatever four-letter word they use to describe you, it's still Barry Bonds, four-letter-word all-time-homer-king... You know, my son asked me if Barry cheats. I said, well, everybody's got an opinion. You met him. Didn't you like him? Wasn't he nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man With the Million Dollar Balls | 8/8/2007 | See Source »

...been exported to places like China, as well as Armenia and South Korea. More than 13 million Chinese a week have been watching bullfights on TV since 2000 according to portaltaurino.com, a bullfighting website. And in 2004, Shanghai hosted the first bullfight ever in the country. "I have a letter from a Chinese business group saying that they want to keep organizing bullfights," says Carlos Ruiz Villasuso, editor-in-chief of mundotoro.com, a popular website for bullfighting aficionados. Asked about the growing debate in Spain, Ruiz Villasuso says that "bullfights are like the Church; they will be here for ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spain, No Ole for Bullfights | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

...refused to call on Gonzales to resign over his role in the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys and his testimony concerning the Administration's wiretapping programs, Specter has rarely hidden his frustration with Gonzales. Just this week, after Gonzales sent Specter and committee chairman Patrick Leahy a letter trying to defend himself against accusations that he had committed perjury in his testimony before the committee, Specter blasted him for deliberately "misleading" the panel. "His testimony was a cat-and-mouse game with the committee and that's not the way the Attorney General of the United States ought to treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arlen Specter's Careful Dissent | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

...letter, Larson was apologetic to investors, asking for their continued patience...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Loses Millions in Hedge Fund Collapse | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

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