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...Tang Clan...
...slaying has been driven underground by plastic gun-toting, golden-toothed infidels draped in gloss and glitter. The horrorcore style has become as clichéd as the old kung fu movies from which it was spawned. Gone is the grimy street noir of Wu-Tang Forever; on Iron Flag, we instead have more party jams (“Soul Power”), gangsta crooning (“Back in the Game”) and traditional boom-bap (the DJ Premier-esque “Rules”). It’s an admirable try and not without its high...
...preserve "unique artifacts of China's history for future generations." Yong Xin clearly has his eye on the value of the franchise. He wants Shaolin to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and he has restored many of its monuments, including a stela that dates to the early Tang dynasty, a pagoda-style bell tower and the Talin, or Stupa Forest, an aptly named field of richly inscribed monks' tombs. But he doesn't have a light touch. Last summer when he wanted to restore Shaolin's bucolic backdrop, he bulldozed most of the village surrounding the temple. That...
...holes. "I'm in it for my health," says Derrick Waller, a musclebound N.Y.P.D. detective, "and because shifu is mad cool." Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes take regular lessons. Musicians Bjork and Tricky drop in when they're in town. And the RZA, the mastermind behind rap collective Wu Tang Clan, checks in with the monk daily because, he chuckles, "it keeps my mind out of the gutter...
...TANG LIANG HONG The lawyer and Workers' Party politician fled Singapore, citing death threats after losing a bid for Parliament in 1997. He was also sued for $2.9 million after he accused Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and 10 other PAP leaders, who referred to him as "anti-Christian," of lying...