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...third element was the Northern Alliance, a resistance movement whose stronghold was in northeast Afghanistan. Most of the Alliance's forces and leaders were, like Massoud, ethnic Tajiks--a minority in Afghanistan. Massoud controlled less than 10% of the country and had been beaten back by the Taliban in 2000. Nonetheless, by dint of his personality and reputation, Massoud was "the only military threat to the Taliban," says Francesc Vendrell, who was then the special representative in Afghanistan of the U.N. Secretary-General...
...giving it their all. Chaplin and Roxburgh, the film's principal Western actors, could have treated the movie as a catered summer trip to China. Instead, the genial Chaplin, a British actor who made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept in at least 75% of the scenes...
Somehow, somebody got the idea that Lance Armstrong could be beaten in the Tour de France this year. The talk started weeks before the event, indications that Spanish teams, which were riding well, were seeing chinks in his armor. Armstrong had won the Dauphiné-Libéré and the Midi Libre, two tough multiday stage races before the Tour, but he didn't win their individual time trials, events that used to be his strength. And didn't he finish second in the Criterium International last March? Didn't that show his vulnerability...
...keep revenues flowing even after the market for plain old phone calls became saturated. But the technology has been slow to develop, and operators have lost investor support for their once-lavish spending. It's a measure of how few people believe in the 3G dream anymore that beaten-down telecom shares rose sharply the day Telefónica finally said "No más." The future just isn't what it used to be. Investors and consumers alike have gotten the message: Forget all that stuff about "the Internet in the palm of your hand" - mobile phones...
...DIED. COLONEL FLOYD JAMES THOMPSON, 69, the longest-held American prisoner of war in Vietnam, who was captive from 1964 to 1973; in Key West, Florida. Imprisoned in the notorious Hanoi Hilton, Thompson was beaten with bamboo sticks, suspended by his thumbs and escaped five times, only to be recaptured. He was held for 3,278 days...