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...RICHARD LI Chairman, Pacific Century CyberWorks...
...Li, 34, had much more to explain recently than his company's $886 million loss during 2000. For instance, why did he claim to be a 1987 Stanford graduate when he had spent only three years there? Everything looked rosy last spring when Pacific Century paid $36 billion for Cable and Wireless HKT, the biggest corporate buyout in Asia outside Japan. The Stanford admission may have made credibility as big a problem for Li as profitability...
...foreign film industry the Japanese controlled was China's, and among its top stars was Li Xianglan, born Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Moviegoers thought her Chinese, and in wartime films she became one of the most popular actresses, as well as a popular singer. Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well...
Senior Dora Gyoffy and sophomore Kart Siilats finished one-two in the high jump, while freshman Andrea Li and sophomores Bryce Weed and Amy Bei swept the pole vault...
...action scenes themselves are a rush of pure cinematic adrenaline. The flight of bona fide martial artists such as Jackie Chan or Jet Li to the States has left the local industry in something of a quandary, namely, how to continue creating the unique brand of action found in Chinese films without qualified martial artists? Consequently, Hong Kong producers have been forced to do the once-unthinkable: transform ordinary popstars and actors into action heroes å lá Charlie’s Angels and The Matrix. With a team of professional stunt coordinators and martial arts choreographers lending their...