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...brutality, Lady Zhao (Gong Li), Ying Zheng's childhood friend and long-time lover, announces that she is leaving him. Ying Zheng manages to convince her that the bloodshed he has incurred is only necessary in creating a lasting period of peace--until it becomes obvious that he will spare no one and nothing, not even her home-state, in his bid to be emperor. She then turns to Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), renowned assassin of virtuosic sword-wielding abilities, to put an end to Ying Zheng's reign of tyranny. Haunted by the ghosts of his victims but redeemed...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Epic Bloodshed in Ancient China | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...game, Harvard's defense may have been tiring somewhat. Mazzoleni dressed just five defenseman with freshman winger Brett Nowak, fresh from the World Junior Championships, taking the final spot as a spare forward. The blueliners rotated their shifts, skating with different partners each time...

Author: By Timothy Jackson and Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: M. Hockey Splits Weekend | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

DESCENDED. JULIA ("Butterfly") HILL, 25, environmental activist, after a 738-day treetop vigil to save a 600-year-old redwood from loggers; near Stafford, Calif. Hill left her 18-story-high perch after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to spare the tree, located on company property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

During his spare time as a young technical officer in a Swiss patent office in 1905, he produced three papers that changed science forever. The first, for which he was later to win the Nobel Prize, described how light could behave not only like a wave but also like a stream of particles, called quanta or photons. This wave-particle duality became the foundation of what is known as quantum physics. It also provided theoretical underpinnings for such 20th century advances as television, lasers and semiconductors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...French side of the English Channel for 15 days--just long enough for Norway to launch its own 300-ship attack on the north of England. When Harold, having defeated the Scandinavians, rushed south again with 7,000 troops, William was outside Hastings. "For God's sake, spare not," he told his men. His well-deployed knights and archers eventually overwhelmed the exhausted Anglo-Saxon infantry. "The living marched over the heaps of the dead," wrote an early historian. By nightfall, Harold was slain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 11th Century: William The Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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