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...footwork and brazenly masochistic showmanship were the foundation for sequences never topped in action-film history. Some of them - the shot in The Armour of God II: Operation Condor, for example, where Jackie drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole in the original Police Story, Chan reenacts in milder fashion, befitting an elder statesman of knockabout melodrama. Spy's stunt coordinators...
Cornell junior Karlee Overguard found the back of the net with 4.4 seconds left on the clock, forcing No. 6 Harvard (8-4-4, 6-4-2 ECAC) to settle for a 4-4 draw with the No. 10 Big Red (8-7-3, 7-1-3) at Bright Hockey Center...
...line of Ryabkina, McDonald and senior Randi Griffin is] going to net, they’re real aggressive, they got off to a great start the first shift of the game,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “I think that gave them some confidence...
...stands, there is little reason for Democrats to be optimistic about 2010. On Thursday, the widely-respected political handicapper Charlie Cook explained that current polls suggest Republicans will enjoy a net gain of 20-30 House seats this fall. But he added a cautionary note: "It is important to note that while one party has never won all of the competitive races in any given election cycle (currently Republicans would need to win all 50 competitive seats to win 218 seats in the House), the likelihood of one or two dozen potentially competitive Democratic seats entering the danger zone...
Though concerns have persisted over compensation at HMC—where managers can net millions of dollars—top officers at the University itself earn modest salaries in comparison with administrators at peer institutions like Columbia and Yale, and have avoided similar criticism...