Word: sharked
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...films, Li considers the most important to be Hero, Fearless and 2005's Danny the Dog, in which he plays a senseless brute, trained to savage anyone running foul of his loan-shark master. "Everything I want to say is in those three movies," he declares. "The message of Hero is that your personal suffering is not as important as the suffering of your country. The point of Danny the Dog is that violence is not a solution. Fearless is actually about personal growth - about a guy who decides that in the end his greatest enemy is himself...
...time to YouTube and Facebook, confident that the real information is all there somewhere should we ever need it. Besides the fact that agreeing to disagree long since went the way of the dodo—that guy with the iPhone who can google it follows conversations as a shark follows a ship—our fundamental ability to converse has suffered. Instead of marshaling facts and precedents, we simply unleash contrasting opinions at increasing decibel levels...
...aggressive, Mustang's promoters are eager to point out. "The shark nose is amplified. The headlamps are more aggressive and the back end has a lot more shape to it," Gelardi notes. "It's modern but it's still a Mustang," he adds, avoiding any mention of "retro" in describing design tweaks. "The proportions are classic, and there are little things that jog your memory. It says Mustang without you having to read the word or see the horse," he says. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with a waterslide that plunges through a shark tank - an unintended metaphor for the current parlous state of the Dubai property market...
...relations nightmare of flames and smoke billowing from the site aspiring to become Dubai's next icon. Workmen managed to repair most of the damage in time, but then the Atlantis was hit by "Free Sammy" campaigners demanding the release from the aquarium of a 13 ft.-long whale shark on the grounds that it was a member of a vulnerable species; a Kerzner spokesman says the young fish will be released into the Gulf soon. All that is on top of Kerzner's personal woes. In the last two years, he has undergone a triple heart bypass, done...