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Michael, a feckless Hong Kong singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...plot is a three-way love story that refuses to get mushy, as its Chinese protagonists stay cynical throughout. Road, the suitably scummy but oh-so-scrummy rocker, tells village-girl-making-good Yang: "A love relationship is just a series of lies between two people." For this, he gets a slap in the face, a knee in the groin and is then told to "bugger off." Their relationship fits the mold for any rock star and groupie: namely, dysfunctional and bordering on the catastrophic. "There are a hundred ways to die," Yang muses. "Dating a rock singer...
...talented cast is Carla Gugino. As Yulaw’s lover Massie, she is sultry and dangerous, an archetype that appears only briefly onscreen. But it is as TK, Gabriel’s wife, that she shines. She is tough and sensitive, the yin to Li’s yang. Her eyes convey love and her lips, passion, making the marital relationship so real, so poignant. The romantic angle of the typical action movie is often the most neglected and the most clichéd. But the scriptwriters take great pains to flesh out their relationship, and it is Gugino...
...Looking for Peace in the Science Wars,” where he attacks head-on the complaints that science—particularly physics—is culturally biased. He points out that many people from other cultures have indeed contributed to the world of mathematics and physics: C.N. Yang, whose work with fundamental particles have formed the basis for the now widely-agreed upon Standard Model of physics, was Chinese. Weinberg demonstrates that there is no “elite” clique of head scientists by illustrating the lengthy process and mounds of evidence that changed his own view...
...Northern Alliance also points to schools like the one in Yang-e-Qale, a remote hamlet a half-hour's jeep ride from Khoja Bahauddin, as proof that it promotes women's rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school's first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom. Many parents believe a couple of years' education is all their daughters need to become good housewives. Other girls in the area attend classes only...