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...Your reward for sitting through the logorrheic stretches of the movie is, first, a car crash - which, in the manner of Hong Kong action films, is shown as an instant replay, from four views - and then a long car chase. Here's the set-up: On a film shoot in Tennessee, a stuntwoman (played by Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take...
...over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake of SARS in 2003-it's easy to see why Asian men have prioritized work. "Since 1997, it's not been possible to get a bonus," says Wong, the Hong Kong buyer and father of four. Spurred by the fear that their incomes will dry up or their jobs will be cut, many men work longer hours in a bid to prove their indispensability...
What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. The word is derived from the French term for obstacle course, and like it or not, U.S. college campuses are becoming hot spots for this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour...
...worth $4.2 billion, but Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, liked to eat takeout and shop at discount outlets. The saga of "Little Sweetie," as she was dubbed by the Hong Kong press, became tabloid fodder as she battled her father-in-law over the fortune of her real estate--tycoon husband Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped in 1990 and never seen again. (A 2005 ruling allowed her to hold on to the estate.) She was 69 and reportedly had ovarian cancer...
Amid the imposing libraries and brick halls at the Harvard Law School (HLS), one building stands apart. Littered with beer cans and stolen Kong signs, Lincoln’s Inn—the former home of a now defunct social group—was one of the only places on campus where students could escape the Bar at a bar. But since HL Central—an upstart networking group founded in 1999—merged with Lincoln’s Inn Society on March 20, the character of the building is in for a renovation...