Word: assassin
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...That's when the darker dramatics start to seep in. Blair suddenly goes all Lady Macbeth, washing his hands obsessively, having psychotic visions of a Union Jack-draped coffin on the kitchen table, a knife-wielding Arab assassin, a dead Iraqi child. Instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of skewering a politician, we're suddenly asked to sympathize with a man whose honest intentions have been cruelly scuppered by fate and faithless friends...
...preeminent movie composer, working with most of the A-list directors. For Zhang Yimou he scored Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Story of Qiu Ju and To Live. For Chen Kaige: Yellow Earth, The Big Parade, Farewell My Concubine, Temptress Moon and The Emperor and the Assassin. For Zhou Xiaowen: No Regrets and The Emperor's Shadow. For Sun Zhou: Heartstrings and Breaking the Silence. Of these 14 films, 10 starred the goddess Gong Li (who was Zhang's one-time mistress). For most of the 90s, she must have heard Zhao's stately music...
...Versions of the group game Assassin have been played at Harvard since at least 1981, when three freshmen organized a game. (“We’ll Fight Them in the Streets, in the Courtyards, in the Dining Halls...
...which the brothers control. The party went on to win closely fought Parliamentary elections last year and, shortly afterward, presidential polls in which Lech was a come-from-behind winner. Jaroslaw did not become Prime Minister right away. Fearful of being mistaken for his brother by a would-be assassin, however, he requested official government security not ordinarily accorded a party leader. He was appointed Prime Minister earlier this year when his predecessor stepped down following disagreements over the direction of government policy. Political analysts in Poland believe that Jaroslaw first declined to take the job, even though his party...
...that he had ingested a radioactive toxin, polonium 210, and that police had found traces of it in three locations: a sushi bar where Litvinenko had eaten lunch, a hotel he had visited on the same day and his home. Polonium 210 is so rare and volatile that the assassin would have needed access to a high-security nuclear laboratory to obtain it. Moscow denies that it had anything to do with the death. At a meeting with European officials in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin called the death a tragedy but also questioned the authenticity of Litvinenko's deathbed accusation...