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...kung fu tango with Yuen Biao. She played the double role of a (male) emperor and his ancient (male) ancestor in Wu Yen. She graced three Jackie Chan films (playing his stepmom in Drunken Master II) and four with Stephen Chow. Her finest fantasy role was as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio and Executioners, in which she joins forces with Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh to save the world. Even in this comic-book chaos, she has an iconic Mui moment: she hears that a child has died, and a teardrop falls from her eye to trickle...
...sweet, sad words for the occasion. But Mui provided her own elegy when she said, "I wonder how many people will remember me after I leave the business for good. My hope is that when they look at the stars in the sky, people will think of my name...
...northern city of Peshawar has prohibited mannequins from being displayed in shop windows and also disapproves of male doctors treating female patients.) But it was the MMA that gave Musharraf support in the parliamentary maneuvers that last week recognized him as an elected President. Middle-class Pakistanis wonder if he's become yet another slippery pol, although few accuse him of the corruption that tainted civilian administrations of the past. Businessmen think he's the only person who can hold Pakistan together, at least for the next few years. "If he dies," says Nazim Haji, a Karachi-based industrialist, "there...
...hard work and spurred by his stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found a way, in his exquisite fashion, to make clear that he was under no illusions about the limits of America's new global war on terrorism. As a result, his campaign to transform the military...
...faced empyrean expectations and a crush of journalists. Not only was he the No. 1 draft pick, plucked straight from high school, but he had already signed a $90 million deal with Nike. The 6-ft. 8-in. James offered a respite from the sordid drama of former boy wonder Kobe Bryant, who faces rape charges. And despite all the attention, James has maintained his game and his poise...