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...there studies martial arts, a big no-no for the new Qing Emperor?the townspeople enlist the help of fighters from the local holy mountain, each gifted with a mystical blade: the Seven Swords. Tsui's purposefully gritty visual style makes it tough to tell the players without a scorecard, but Hong Kong movie veterans Lau Kar-leung, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen lead the way in thrashing Fire-wind's warriors, despite odds of about...
...management playbook, from the fields to the owners' boxes to the NFL office in New York City, has lots to offer more conventional businesses. Just look at the scorecard: the NFL has increased the value of its product, expanded seamlessly into other distribution channels, like satellite, started its own television network and raised billions for lucrative new stadiums. And the game has never been more popular...
...family-values lobby, which is thrilled that they've lost the balance of power in the Senate. Not only are the Greens the chief heirs of the '60s, notes Michael Hogan, a political scientist at the University of Sydney, they are also "almost an anti-Christian party." An election scorecard compiled by the ACL and other Christian groups gave the Greens 0 out of 26. Labor did little better, with 4. (The Coalition rated 16.) Shadow foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd, a devout Christian, has expressed outrage at the notion that "God has somehow become some wholly owned subsidiary...
...bruising currency devaluations, allow savers and lenders to benefit from a bigger capital market and, overall, be a shot in the arm for growth, investment and employment. Now, after nearly three years, we can begin to ask, What are the euro's economic effects so far? The scorecard is mixed...
When Dick Durbin's hometown priest slammed the Senator's pro-choice voting record, Durbin's office did not sit idle. It compiled a scorecard ranking 24 Catholic Senators by their votes on issues of concern to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Abortion made the list, but so did the minimum wage, the death penalty and media ownership, all weighted equally. Democrats did better than Republicans, and the test's high scorer was John Kerry. An incensed (and low scoring) Senator Rick Santorum fumed that abortion and "how many television stations somebody owns ... are not equivalent moral issues." True...