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...confounded by her steely hauteur. Film stars typically possess a glamorous version of the common touch; they are of the earth. Hepburn was apart and above, an aristocrat from some loftier time and code. But she was no standard Great Lady; her emotional intelligence was too prickly. She blew hot and cold in the same breath--her fire had Freon...
...easily led?and whose core beef was misleadership on the part of Tung?it was a major insult. Tsang quickly apologized. The dab is now split between stubborn stalwarts and more-flexible members who fear losing Legco elections scheduled for next year. That faction openly admits that Tung blew the Article 23 debate...
...Afterward, the president sat with workers to hear about the plant's AIDS awareness program, a model in a country that some have accused of acting too slowly to admit and embrace the problem. Ford blew through the taboos surrounding the disease, pushing employees to get themselves and their families tested...
...Turki Nasser al-Dandani, the commander of the terror cell that mounted the May 12 suicide truck bombings, was cornered by Saudi police July 3 in the town of Sowair, near the border with Jordan. He blew himself up with a hand grenade rather than being taken alive. U.S. intelligence reports describe him as head of Persian Gulf operations for al-Qaeda, responsible for land and maritime attacks on U.S. and Western interests throughout the region. His knowledge of al-Qaeda plans could extend to schemes in Asia, Europe and the U.S., officials...
...emanating from Bush Administration hard-liners. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a Paris-based Iranian dissident group, claims that North Korean scientists have been helping Iran build a nuclear facility that could be used to produce bombmaking material. Last December, NCRI blew the whistle on Iran's uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz, heightening international concern about the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just how much nuclear help Iran is getting from North Korea isn't clear, says NCRI spokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh. "We do know they have benefited," he says...