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...feats that made the movie a gut as well as a head experience. He has won further acclaim for Crouching Tiger, and he was the one person who could say no to the world-class director making his first action film, which happened on more than one occasion. No wonder: the script would read, "They fight," leaving the overall conception to Lee and the hard work of realizing it to Yuen. "When I'm working with good directors," Yuen says, "they'll often come up with ideas that profoundly inspire me. And then if I can make them workable...
Coming on the heels of several other unsettling incidents, including the resignation of Hong Kong's top civil servant Anson Chan, many in the territory wonder whether the moment of truth has arrived: four years after Britain's colonial rulers sailed away, is Beijing about to drop its pretense of non-?interference and force Hong Kong to toe the line on Falun Gong...
...could hardly blame him. After all, Rasmussen had had his chest cracked open, his heart stitched up and was swimming in painkillers. Is it any wonder that he--and 30% to 80% of the more than 500,000 Americans who undergo bypass each year--would experience bouts of mental fogginess after surgery? Most surgeons assumed these effects were temporary, since they usually disappeared a few weeks or months after the operation--as they did in Rasmussen's case. Besides, doctors tended to focus on the more pressing bypass complications--stroke, for example, which occurs in 1% to 5% of cases...
...CANADA After much wrangling, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien last week became the first foreign leader to visit President Bush. But Bush has chosen Mexico for his first foreign visit. Is it really any wonder...
...this story about the plucky legal secretary who shimmied her way through one of history's most lucrative class action suits. And Julia Roberts turned in a solid performance in the title role. But compared to the subtleties of "You Can Count on Me," or the elegant understatement of "Wonder Boys," this Hollywood blockbuster seems a bit, well, obvious...