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...ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
...week - the SARS incubation period - before scientists will know whether there will be a price to pay for it. - By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong Avenging Djindjic SERBIA Police rounded up - or killed - more suspects in the alleged mob hit of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. His suspected assassin, Zvezdan Jovanovic, was arrested, and two of three alleged masterminds of the Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still...
Since noon of February 21, a game of Assassin has paralyzed Thayer, making recluses of the first-years who inhabit this once peaceful dorm. The rules of the game, as played in Thayer, are simple. At the game’s beginning, a single organizer randomly assigns each player a “victim.” In order to assassinate one’s victim, the assassin must either tag or water-gun him with at least ten feet of space from the nearest person. If the hit is successful, the assassin then pursues the victim of his newly...
...boiling pot. He was also a Presbyterian preacher, but not the type to turn the other cheek. In 1841, after a pro-slavery raiding party attempted to burn his house, he put forward a summation of his principles: "It is as much a duty to shoot the midnight assassin in his attacks as it is to pray...
...maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Pakistan's Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar, the "Rawalpindi Express," who can bowl a ball at 161 km/h, should be enough to keep them in contention. And don't miss Sri Lanka's man with the golden arm, spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, sometimes known as the smiling assassin because he grins incessantly as he mercilessly bowls out opposing batsmen. For South Africa, meanwhile, there is the chance to recoup from a disastrous semifinal of the 1999 World Cup, when a dreadful mix-up with two balls remaining between their batsmen Allan Donald and Lance Klusener - named player...