Word: tigers
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...Ever since Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon broke records for a foreign-language film at the Stateside box office, Asian directors have plundered Chinese history for tales of airborne warriors and another chance at the U.S. market. Chan, better known for romantic dramas like the superb Comrades: Almost a Love Story, could have a shot with this remake of Chang Cheh's 1973 kung-fu bromance Blood Brothers. He's certainly got star quality: Jet Li, Kaneshiro and Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau (who had the Matt Damon role in the film that was remade as The Departed...
...Lanka's 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life's end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority - about 10% of the population - and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades...
...Wilms, there were several reasons, mainly economic ones. And, he adds, the restraints of the G.D.R. may have helped push the Mob's creativity. "We were so crazy because we felt hemmed in," Wilms says. "I wouldn't even get the idea to dress that way today. A tiger in a cage is wilder than in the wild...
...thing that struck me was the gap between Federer's physical and mental abilities. He doesn't have this supreme confidence that other athletes have. As good as Tiger Woods is with a golf club, he also has this assassin quality to him. Federer doesn't have the ability to build his confidence up to the point of delusion. He's very realistic and rational. But that's not a knock on him. He displays real humanity, and you rarely get that with an athlete of his caliber. And it shows you how physically gifted he is, how good...
...soon gave way to behavioral psychologists and neuroscientists who employed algorithms and "clutter metrics" - the study of how the eye locates and detects objects - to create increasingly complex designs. The familiar "U.S. Woodland" pattern, which has been taken up by soldiers in Ghana, Zambia, Uganda and Liberia, replaced the "tiger stripe" look of the Vietnam War, while troops during the first Gulf War donned "chocolate chip" or "cookie dough" duds - nicknames outdone only by the "scrambled egg" scheme favored by Egyptian forces. (The mottled black and off-white flecks found on both are meant to mimic the gravel and stones...