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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked like a man, like a dog, doing gorgeous stunts in such terrific films as The Heroic Trio, Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun, and suffered torn ligaments, cracked ribs, jangled neck vertebrae and a dislocated shoulder. She was seriously injured in 1995, while shooting Ah Kam. "It wasn't one of my difficult stunts," Yeoh says blithely, "just jumping off an 18-ft. wall. I landed on my head, and my neck went crack! Every muscle, every ligament in my body was screaming. At the hospital they put me in cement to keep me immobile." A month later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...less notable to the world at large. She and her 12-year-old son Ephraim died almost a month ago, after having been gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian terrorists outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El. The two killers, Abdel Nasser Qaysi and Ibrahim Kam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret Palestinian court a week later, convicted not of murder but of "betraying the security of the Palestinian people." Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, defending the convictions before indignant leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--who demanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take a Closer Look at Events in Israel | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

...naval vessel [NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes: "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." KAM-WAN WONG Durham, England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...Kam admitted his St. Patrick's Day expertise was somewhat less than his friend...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: St. Patrick's Day Parade Draws Crowd of Thousands | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

Lawrence W. Kam, also a GSAS student, agreed. However, he acknowledged that the South Boston parade organizers had won their fight...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: St. Patrick's Day Parade Draws Crowd of Thousands | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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