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...cross a busy street, normal people might go to the corner and wait for the green. Not Jackie. Standing on a balcony in his Police Story II, he jumps onto a truck going one way, onto a double-decker bus going the other way and then through a window into the second floor of the villain's headquarters...
Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal...
...committed and local politicians get committed.'' The need for speed is the result of a new campaign schedule that telescopes 23 primaries into the 35 days between New Hampshire's race on Feb. 20 of next year and California's on March 26. To run in the compressed window, big bucks are vital. Serious contestants will need about $25 million by the end of this year to buy ads and pay staff...
...Harry Blackmun, in a dissent dear to champions of the rights of mentally impaired defendants, wrote that ``a defendant who is utterly incapable of conducting his own defense cannot be considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
...benefit of potentially-concerned friends, several members of the staff came to the window to offer assurances--saying there was no reason to fear for their physical or mental health during the confinement period...