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Also among the presenters was the Harvard Wushu club, a group of around 20 men and women who demonstrated various forms of Chinese martial arts...
Greene seems to leave a lasting impression on anyone he meets. Former schoolmate and current Boston native Dr. Paul Ketro, who stopped by to see Greene’s talk Wednesday night at the Brattle Theatre, laughs as he recalls his old friend constantly practicing judo, a Japanese martial art, and proving he could do a thousand sit-ups during the lunch period in third grade...
...more discomforting silence has greeted the ears over intersession: the silence of complacency. It has been only a few weeks since Mather House declared unilateral war on its riverside peer on the grounds that Kirkland House had taken the gong. Where is the campus outrage at this act of martial arrogance...
...Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, furious that a battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah...
...Ring films, like Master and Commander, celebrate old-fashioned martial virtues: honor, duty, comradeship, sacrifice--soldiering on, under an immense, sapping burden. Though the trilogy percolates with bracing adventure, it is a testament to the long slog of any war. Pain streaks the faces of the film's stalwart warriors. They know the enormity of their foe and know that the child hobbit who bears the Ring is far from them--surely in peril, perhaps lost forever. At one point Aragorn asks Gandalf, "What does your heart tell you?" and in a little movie epiphany, the wizard's face briefly...