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...made five films - Born to Defence (1986), The Master (1989), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Fist of Legend (1994) and Fearless (2006) - in which he protects his countrymen from cruel and rapacious foreigners, mostly Americans. In 1994's The New Legend of Shaolin, he is a Han Chinese rebel fighting against Qing (or Manchu, and thus foreign) rule. In Hero (2002), Li is an assassin who, to his own detriment, abstains from an attempt on the life of the Qin King, who goes on to become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China...
Right now, schools assess teachers before they teach--filtering for candidates who are certified, who have a master's degree, who have other pieces of paper that do not predict good teaching. And we pay them the same regardless of their effectiveness...
...curious" currencies. In 1934, the New York Times described his coin collection as one of the largest in the world. "A lot of people call us crazy," he told the paper, "but I think it's a worthwhile hobby. It keeps me broke most of the time." Like any master hunter, he had a scavenger's instincts. He would write to missionaries serving in the most remote corners of the world, offering a modest contribution in return for two samples of the local currency. He would sell one and keep the other, a self-financing collection that eventually grew...
...Levi said. “The attempt was to democratize the benefits of living on campus.” A VISION REVISITEDBut according to some, Lowell’s vision for Harvard housing is tainted by another legacy: discrimination toward gay, Jewish, and other minority students.The current Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck acknowledged that “in Lowell’s time there were certain kinds of exclusions that were part of the zeitgeist of the era.” As GSD students including Matt Storus approach the project, they say they worry that the current Houses...
...taking sides (even his children didn't know whom he'd voted for). In these stints, as in his Masterpiece Theater introductions, he'd often sketch out a speech, then deliver it without script or teleprompter, trusting his memory and high-wire poise. He was as much an improv master as the jazzmen he admired...