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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...tonight's matchup at Brown, Harvard will ride the bus down knowing that it is actually the favorite...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Basketball Has Brown, Yale on Tap | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

Michael Corrente: Oh no, no, no. If I hadn't done it independently, we wouldn't be here talking right now. I had every offer in the world to do it otherwise. But of course they wanted the guys to ride off on a white horse in the end. It had to be shot in color; no gay bashing scene; Nicky couldn't die. Pretty much sanitized bullshit is what is would have ended up. The worst thing that could have happened to this movie is three million dollars...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Getting Out in BLACK & WHITE | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...there is a Beanpot Final to go to, and you don't have to ride the T to get there. Heck, you don't even have to have a ticket...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: The Other Beanpot | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

...Jonas Kjellberg Alingsas, Sweden While the situation in Chechnya is devastating and deplorable, it should come as no surprise. A look at any relief map will show that Chechnya holds the gateway through the Caucasus Mountains into the Russian heartland. Once past Grozny, it's a flat, fast tank ride to Moscow. The Russian military planners will never give up both the southern gateways of Georgia and Azerbaijan and the northern gateways of Chechnya, which would effectively relinquish control of the natural barrier the Caucasus Mountains afford. While public opinion rises against Yeltsin, the Russian military machine's influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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