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...General Wong's Chicken...
...will likely want to stop and eat. Take them to the luncheon in the Houses. For just one meal Harvard University Dining Services will let you have a taste of what they've been preparing at the faculty club while you've been served up generous helpings of General Wong's Chicken and Emerald Beef. Savor the penne with artichokes, take seconds of the endive salad, but do remind your parents that it's back to Sharon's Chicken on Monday and that the care packages should keep coming...
Since this action choreographer is not only a director but an actor, Yuen has shown he can take punishment as well as dish it out. It's a family affair: as a boy he appeared with his father in the old Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face...
...Evian Wong now has a firsthand taste of the new Hong Kong. The 33-year-old business executive is a follower of the Falun Gong spiritual movement that for the past 18 months has been the target of a brutal crackdown on the mainland. On Jan. 2, Wong awoke as usual at 6 a.m. and made the 10-minute walk from her apartment to a nearby park, where she spent an hour practicing the group's freeze-frame meditation exercises. When she arrived at the office, her boss was waiting. He bluntly told Wong she was fired?despite ?having offered...
...Evian Wong displays that kind of dogged faith, the attribute that has so infuriated the authorities in Beijing. Despite losing her job, Wong still intends to tell potential employers she is a Falun Gong follower. But she has no desire to take her case to the labor tribunal for unfair dismissal. "Falun Gong teaches us not to make people feel uncomfortable," she says. "And if my actions make other people suffer, I won't do it." If present tensions are any indication, Wong and her fellow Falun Gong believers will need all the fortitude their faith can provide...