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After his last opponent stumbled on gnathonic (definition: fawning), SAI GUNTURI correctly spelled rhathymia (light-heartedness) and pococurante (nonchalant) to win the 76th Scripps Howard Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Dallas said he will use the $12,000 cash prize to "buy a lot of video games...
...left the river before the white water fireworks began, at Tha Sai, and set off on foot for Thi Lor Su. Two days later, I was back in sleepy Umphang, suitably sated by superlatives...
...Moua and his comrades sleep uneasily on beds of leaves inside banana-leaf huts. Most cannot recall how many times they?ve relocated, but they remember the people they?ve lost. Bhun Si, 42, says his wife and two sons were taken from him last October. His friend Soum Sai saw everything: the government troops came in, he says, and shot women and children from a distance of just five meters. Today, Bhun looks barely alive himself. Only two fingers remain on his left hand?he lost the others in a B-41 rocket attack that killed...
...Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong Sai...
...Yuen directed such classic martial arts films as Fong Sai Yuk and Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin Wu Zu (released this year on DVD in the U.S. as Legend of the Red Dragon). He also choreographed Jet Li in seven action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements...