Word: beset
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...does everyone love Bangkok and Havana? Even Mumbai sounds better than Manila," says Filipino conceptual artist Yason Banal over coffee in Quezon City. There isn't an immediate answer. The Third World cities he lists aren't immune to the challenges that beset the Philippine capital: all grapple with congestion, crime and corruption, and none escape the banes of poverty, heat, seediness or pollution. So perhaps it's a question of marketing. Tourists are drawn to destinations with double-pronged, p.r.-friendly pegs-saris and spices for Mumbai, cigars and salsa for Havana, markets and temples for Bangkok. Manila, with...
...mount. Nonaka lost the CEO title last year when the position was eliminated; on March 19, she resigned as chairwoman shortly after the company reported it might have to restate earnings for the four years through March 2004 amid a government investigation of possible accounting irregularities. While Sanyo was beset by problems before Nonaka arrived, including cutthroat price competition from South Korea and China, her attempt to radically change the corporate mind-set had become a distraction from urgent problems, analysts said. She had to go. "Think Gaia was a very good strategy," says Yasuyuki Onishi, a Tokyo-based financial...
...might not be enough to dissuade the popular clamor inside Kurdistan for more assertive action. Just four years since the fall of Saddam, most Kurds may be willing to remain a part of Iraq for now, but few want their destinies to remain tied to a poor, failing state beset by sectarian carnage. Over time, the push for a free and independent Kurdistan may become irresistible. In a bid to manage expectations, the Kurdish leadership is putting out a new party line, echoed in mosques and newspaper editorials: "Be grateful." But as Americans have learned in Iraq, gratitude...
...nowhere did Priour impress as much as in his last scene, when he was beset by a gripping, realistic asthma attack after he confessed his feelings to Melissa. It was the one scene completely devoid of the comic element, and was shocking after the almost 90 minutes of straight chaos and humor that ran beforehand. It jerked me out of my laughter and into tears within a second...
...Rodriguez's feature jumbles the zombie, cop, political thriller and rural-trash-melodrama genres. Like The Night of the Living Dead, it's about a random bunch of people trapped in a shack and beset by flesh-dripping, flesh-eating zombies. In the spirit of that 1968 classic, Planet Terror celebrates the community of the still-living, except that Rodriguez's humans do a lot less grousing than George Romero's did. It's also got deadly gases, go-go dancers, pretty disgusting shots of men with extreme gonadal anomalies, and Bruce Willis as the man who killed bin Laden...