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...stars. Veteran actor Delroy Lindo lends authority and strength to his role as Multiverse Agent Roedecker, one of two agents assigned bring Yulaw to justice. Roedecker’s partner, Funsch, is played by Jason Statham, whose intense Dirty Harry impersonation contrasts with Lindo’s silent aura of power...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'One' Singular Sensation | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...found himself morally at last" under the influence of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Kennedy's callow self-assurance first foundered after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Leaming writes, Jackie stepped in, using her social skills and talent for imagemaking to wrap his presidency in an aura of maturity and dignity that it did not yet possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jackie's Thousand Days | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...want to cast us in the next installment [which may be partially set in Japan]. I would say the star we most admire is Sophia Loren. We have attended four Academy Awards shows, Cannes, and others, and we have seen her at some of them. She has an unbelievable aura. But we are not limiting ourselves to Hollywood. We are going to Korea to film a TV special and appear in a magazine layout; we have also appeared in Chinese magazines. But what we would really like is to take our roles as lifestyle consultants global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Bodies, Themselves | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...world's most wanted terrorist but also to thousands of jihadis who flock there to learn the tricks of the trade. Out of their harsh version of "pure" Islam and to keep themselves in power, the Taliban has made of Afghanistan a mecca of terrorism, a land whose aura of Islam ascendant lures volunteers from a vast pool of Muslims who want to partake of Afghanistan's great victory. Many are drawn not simply to bin Laden and his gang but also to the idea of Talibanizing the Muslim world. The CIA estimates that of tens of thousands of fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Troubles | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...world's most wanted terrorist but also to thousands of jihadis who flock there to learn the tricks of the trade. Out of their harsh version of "pure" Islam and to keep themselves in power, the Taliban has made of Afghanistan a mecca of terrorism, a land whose aura of Islam ascendant lures volunteers from a vast pool of Muslims who want to partake of Afghanistan's great victory. Many are drawn not simply to bin Laden and his gang but also to the idea of Talibanizing the Muslim world. The CIA estimates that of tens of thousands of fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Troubles | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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