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...protagonist, Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is excellent in the role). Mike is a black belt jiu-jitsu instructor, running a none-too-successful school in South Central Los Angeles, yet refusing to fight for the money that would lift him out of poverty. He holds to the ancient Samurai Code, which insists that competition is crass, a dishonor to the purity of the "art" that he practices. Jiu-jitsu, he insists, is not about winning and losing, it is about finding "escapes" from desperate situations, escapes that allow both participants to withdraw from combat with their honor intact...
...romance has cooled. Some African activists worry that Beijing still sometimes props up ancient autocrats like Mugabe. In nations with strong civil societies like South Africa, there is a growing realization that many Western firms train local workers and understand how to operate in a free political environment. Meanwhile, activists in places like Ethiopia and Namibia have condemned Chinese investment practices, including poor wages and importation of Chinese laborers. In one of the worst incidents, Zambia exploded in protest after an accident at a Chinese-owned copper mine there in 2005 killed over 50 Zambians...
...seeking Kurdish militants to an atavistic attempt by Turkish prosecutors to ban the country's own ruling party. The political intrigue has created a speed bump--or maybe a stop sign--for an economy that had been striding with determination toward inclusion in the European Union and recharging its ancient trade links with the Middle East...
...America's "chickens coming home to roost." He tried to say he was merely quoting U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck-but Wright chose to interpret those "chickens" not as the decision to place U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which was Osama bin Laden's casus belli, but as the ancient sins of slavery, the eradication of Native Americans, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It would have been nice if Moyers had asked Wright, "Do you really believe that God was punishing us for our sins? How is that different from the conservative Evangelicals who say New York was being punished...
Both teams had tough 2007 campaigns, with the women going 5-11 overall and 2-5 in the Ivies, facing the No. 11, 13, 15, 16, and 17 ranked teams in the nation in league play alone. The men went 5-7 overall and 3-3 in the Ancient Eight, facing No. 1, 5, and 20 along...