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The writer-director Wong Kar-wai, in the past a maker of romantic-erotic drama ("Happy Together," "In the Mood for Love"), has turned back to martial-arts movies, after reworking an early effort ("Ashes of Time") that didn't quite satisfy him.

The president also harked back to ancient Sinhalese martial heroes.

Edward Zwick, mobilizing his samurai warriors for some of the most elaborate battle scenes in recent memory, is clearly trying to go back to the savage martial splendor of Akira Kurosawa.

It is one of the most vivid athletic spectacles in the world, and its roots can be traced back to competitions of martial prowess that took place among Genghis Khan's warriors.

Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, whom Fremont ignored until he was arrested and sent back to Washington for court martial and dismissal.

So what we need to do is get back to the basics of martial arts - using body conditioning workouts.

The Wu-Tang Clan's connection to martial arts goes back to its beginnings in 1992.

I said, 'Probably the firing squad, sir.' He then said something to the effect, 'I could send you all back to the States for courts-martial,' or he could court-martial us out here and still have a firing squad.

Martial went back to Catullus for his metres and his often obscene wit.

But if throwing money at schools was not the answer, what is? Dr Michal Federowicz, director of Poland's Education Research Institute in Warsaw, traces the roots of this success back to the dark years of martial law after the Solidarity era ended in 1981, when, as he put it, "educated people were suppressed".

I had to put two members of my squadron's administrative staff on a flight back to the US for courts martial after they smuggled sex workers onto a foreign military base housing us.