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...fantastic human being and a wonderful student," Goodenough said. "It's just unbelievably tragic...
With good or bad luck, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would have provided a stern challenge. Consider these factors: a $15 million action movie that was also to be a poignant, tragic romance; a fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping, who had won international acclaim for his work on The Matrix and was bound to tangle with the soft-spoken, hard-to-budge Lee; a top-flight all-Asian cast featuring Chow Yun Fat (Hong Kong), Michelle Yeoh (Malaysia), Zhang Ziyi (Beijing) and Chang Chen (Taiwan). Only one of the stars--Zhang, then a 19-year-old ingenue--spoke anything like...
...unfortunate reality in Canada, as in the U.S., is that the child-protection system is in crisis. The problems are complex, the safeguards almost nonexistent, and, despite a number of dedicated individuals, children continue to die in horrifying circumstances. What will it take to stop the tragic death of youngsters who were brutally tortured and murdered by their so-called caregivers? I applaud the social workers who are trying to make changes, and I hope that more of us will realize this isn't someone else's problem. MELANIE MCCAIG Toronto...
...piloting a 60-ft., 15-ton double-decker leviathan, dubbed the Admiral by the rental company because it was the largest model in its fleet. What had I been thinking? Our three kids were eager; my wife, game. But I was certain we'd end up as another tragic summer-boating statistic. Worse, a houseboating statistic...
...wise man does not try to hurry history," was what Warren Christopher had to say to the Cheney clip on an abbreviated "Late Edition." Christopher, like Gore used to, is talking up the next-year "itch" as something Bush doesn't want either - "wouldn't it be tragic if at some later time, these votes were counted and..." The new Gore bogeyman is a post-inaugural hand count by the media, via the Sunshine Law. (For good reason - the Miami Herald, in Sunday's paper, modeled a 23,000-vote victory for Gore under "perfect" conditions...