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...Niagara Motel doesn't exactly sound like a barrel of laughs. But here's the funny part: the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based director Gary Yates (2004's Seven Times Lucky) is a comedy, albeit of the dark kind. And it works a bit in the same way that Niagara Falls succeeds as a tourist destination: it's wonderful if you can focus on the main attraction while disregarding the garish environment around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misfiring Misfits | 3/27/2006 | See Source »

...Annette Lu. To the DPP, the matter is over and done with?the case solved, the would-be assassin dead by his own hand. To the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, the affair still stands as a sham, a political stunt orchestrated by a desperate DPP to win the election (albeit a dangerous stunt?Chen was shot in the abdomen). Two years on, Taiwan's political landscape is still bathed in acid?and with two years left until Chen's term expires, there's scant prospect of this rancor easing. For a start, an $11 billion weapons deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Combat Fatigue | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...Kozulin: Lukashenko's lost his nerve. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, is a major national holiday, albeit unrecognized officially - the anniversary of the Belarus People's Republic, our independent state, proclaimed back in 1918 and destroyed several months later. Lots of people always gather to mark this day. Now, the anniversary coincided with mass election fraud protests. The opposition has called upon the people to come to the square en masse to protest. The authorities were scared that this "pathetic tent camp" worked as a toehold for the dozens of thousands who would show up tomorrow - and turn Minsk into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Crackdown in Belarus | 3/24/2006 | See Source »

...rather narrow Times’ study is hardly the final word on the effectiveness of these laws. Nevertheless, it brings an important aspect of the reproductive rights debate to the fore at a particularly decisive and divisive moment. Moreover, it offers, albeit counter-intuitively, the opportunity for moderation and cooperation between pro-life and pro-choice groups...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: No Consent to Notification | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

...document does go out of its way, albeit rather cryptically, to warn China against "old ways of thinking and acting" in its worldwide pursuit of oil and other energy sources. And it also laments Russia's faltering commitment to democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Read: The Bush Strategy Report | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

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