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...Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy that relies heavily on this kind of technological know-how. In the future it even wants to add such high-tech gizmos as laser beams to zap U.S. satellites that monitor battlefields, bombs emitting electromagnetic pulses that blind missile guidance systems, and computer attacks that could put U.S. command networks on the fritz...
...other Hong Kong entry, The Eye, has been a huge hit throughout Southeast Asia?which proves only that the audience is desperate for Sixth Sense-style thrills, whether or not they make any other sense. A young woman (the fetching Angelica Lee), blind since childhood, has her sight restored with a pair of eyes from an unknown donor. Suddenly she sees ... dead people. Twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, who directed the spiffy actioner Bangkok Dangerous, settle this time for stock characterizations and flabby scare devices. The only thing that jolted audiences out of their seats was the sudden deep...
...Leiden. "But actually they've been remarkably coherent in pushing for their policies." In part that's because the Fortuynites were essentially preaching to the choir. Both coalition partners - the Christian Democratic cda of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and the liberal VVD - would have had to be blind to miss the "Just say no to the status quo" message of last May's vote. Even Fortuyn's bitterest opponents acknowledged - especially after his death - that he'd latched on to real disenchantment. Nowhere is this harsher approach more evident than in the treatment of foreigners...
...deemed worthy of inspection, then America will have made significant gains toward achieving its goal of eliminating Iraqi weapons of mass destruction—and the U.S. should then immediately cease its preparation for war. Should Iraq fail to live up to its commitment, the international community would be blind not to recognize Hussein’s duplicity, giving a strong mandate to the Bush administration to declare...
...weapons of mass destruction threat emanating from Iraq, Ritter says, and he was lying to the American people to get them to go to war. Once a favorite guest of hawkish Republicans who regularly invited him to testify at congressional committees about the dangers of turning a blind eye to Iraq's weapons programs, this week Ritter was instead addressing the Iraqi legislature, decrying his own country's claims - and warning that readmitting inspectors was the only way to avoid...