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What was the most difficult stunt you've performed in a movie? Robert Quach, DALLAS The shopping-mall scene in Police Story where I jumped onto the chandelier and slid down 75 ft. (23 m). There was no protection. [After landing] I had to get up, grab the bad guy and punch him, all in one shot. That stunt was like suicide...
...eight minute performance, putting Radcliffe in elite company. Only the Badgers’ A boat achieved a similar performance by winning the first qualifying heat over the Black and White’s B boat with a finishing time of 7:42.6.—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Washington Shifting DOD Priorities Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called for a major adjustment in defense spending that he says will make the U.S. better equipped for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. If approved, the Gates budget will...
...part of a voluntary settlement agreement with Health and Human Services, Robert B. Fogel will not be allowed to serve the U.S. Public Health Service in any advisory capacity for three years. All research affiliated with Fogel funded through the Public Health Service during this period will be subject to supervision...
History is full of revolutionaries who failed to make the switch. Most promised people's rule but, once in power, embraced a permanent state of revolution - some, like Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chávez, conjuring up fantastical foreign enemies to fight. (To those ranks, now add the leader of the influential ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, who told the East London rally that the young would "never allow them to donate this country to Britain, to the hands of the colonizers.") To their people, this never-ending war is generally experienced as dictatorship. Too many liberation leaders leave office...