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...dramas that flooded Saturday-morning U.S. TV in the wake of Bruce Lee's success with Enter the Dragon. The plot, of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter, is familiar from many Jackie Chan films, including the one that made him a star, Drunken Master. Fans of Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies will have no trouble spotting this movie's Furious Five: the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey - voiced by Chan himself, as a way of lending his vocal blessing to the project...
...Smith dares to confront two big questions that most scholars nowadays scrupulously avoid: Does poetry matter? And, if it does, which poets matter most? His title promises us a kind of "Alien vs. Predator" battle of the titans whose winner will become master of the literary universe...
...Yeltsin, then head of the Russian Soviet Republic. Clambering on top of a tank outside the Russian White House, he defied those who wanted to return Russia to its communist traditions. Their coup might have succeeded if they had put him under preventive arrest. Instead, Yeltsin emerged as the master of the political situation. Gorbachev came back from detention in Crimea to find that his personal authority had drained away. By the end of the year the U.S.S.R. had been abolished and Yeltsin was ruling an independent Russia...
...Many who played under Gibson were shattered by his passing. "Jack - he loved his players, he cared about his players," said Peter Sterling, who won three premierships under the master at the Sydney club Parramatta. It was to Sterling that Gibson offered perhaps his most famous piece of advice, at once simple, esoteric and delightfully clever. The coach told the halfback, who'd been kicking poorly, to "kick it to the seagulls" - in other words, to a part of the field that is free of opposition players, to the point where the gulls of a coastal city feel safe settling...
...just marketing. Both Nike and Under Armour are latching onto a new approach to training that's more dynamic than lifting weights and sprinting. At Nike.com athletes can access drill videos from "SPARQ Master Trainers": You're a basketball player, and you want to improve your quickness? Have your coach drop tennis balls at your feet, and catch them before they bounce above your knees. Under Armour will also post cross-training drills on its site this summer. "Nike is going after them with a vengeance," says John Shanley, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group. "They want to make sure...