Last March Terry Botwick, a programming executive at CBS, learned that veteran Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong (Supercop) was interested in developing a martial-arts show for television.

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And Obama was also able to help prevent Sarkozy and others from getting a global supercop to oversee markets across all borders, a bit of a victory in his effort to make sure new regulations do not go too far.

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