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...surprise win leaves it looking likely that the Chinese women may garner an Olympic medal from tennis, either from women's singles player Li or women's pair Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. Li, hardly a household name overseas, survived a treacherous draw that pitted her against both world No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova and Williams, who won Wimbledon this year. Certainly, the support of a raucous home crowd helped buoy the 25-year-old Chinese athlete, who is ranked No. 42 in the world. "Wow, I don't think you could see that in another country," said...
...Huaou Yan ’10, who is one of Hawley’s roommates in Mather House, said he was not surprised when Hawley was chosen to appear on the show...
...Yan also said that Hawley, who has an extensive knowledge of the American presidency, is also well-versed in esoteric subjects...
...weekend, highlighted by a win in the regatta’s second race.Meanwhile, the B-division boat had just four top-10 finishes, but two of them were wins, in Saturday’s second and third races.Junior skipper and captain Jon Garrity was joined by sophomore crew Winston Yan on Saturday and junior crew Kerry Anne Bradford on Sunday. The Crimson wound up ninth in the B-division.Boston College easily won the regatta, finishing 25 points ahead of runners-up Brown and Connecticut College.DUPLIN TROPHYThe women’s team had a mixed weekend at the Duplin Trophy in Chestnut...
...kill each other when it's over," says Jackie Chan as the Drunken Master Lu Yan to Jet Li's Silent Monk in the new Asian-American fantasy film The Forbidden Kingdom. But when these honored veterans of Hong Kong martial-arts movies get into fighting mode, it's an open question as to whether they'll survive till the end of the shoot. (Chan ends each of his films with gruesome outtakes of the injuries he suffered doing his stunts.) For all the safety precautions taken, the two stars still have to give every fiber of their disciplined, battered...