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...hero's-pal role, down to the defeated slouch and the baritone whining. The film's costumes and design have a giddily precise exaggeration to them. And stay for the movie's denouement: a two-minute speech that wraps up the plot like Christmas ribbons around a time bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Hear America Smirking | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...March 1, has been questioned extensively about his relationship with Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers. But his U.S. interrogators have also grilled him about another figure of much concern to Washington: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the maverick Pakistani scientist who has been called the father of the Islamic Bomb. U.S. intelligence, according to one official, has information that the al-Qaeda man and the nuclear scientist had connections with the same safe-house operator and may have crossed paths. They were "reported to be at the same place at approximately the same time," the official said. Under questioning, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda's Nuclear Contact? | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...people died in two suicide bomb attacks in Chechnya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...MILITARY FORCE The U.S. hasn't ruled out the use of force to strip North Korea of its nukes. Clinton considered a strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. But the risk remains that a smart-bomb attack will spark a war that won't be as neat as Gulf War II. Estimates of casualties in South Korea from even a short conflict run to 1 million. The U.S. would again risk international censure for unilateral military action. In April, China and Russia scuttled a U.N. Security Council resolution merely condemning North Korea for pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joining the Club | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

...enemy programmed to hate and fear is not the adversary the U.S. wants to face across the bargaining table. But assuming that Kim is driven primarily by a desire to stay in power, he might realize his nuclear plan has a fundamental flaw. Using or threatening to use the bomb will almost certainly spell the end of his regime, no matter the cost. Logic should be telling him that the only sure way he can survive is by giving up his nukes, in return getting much-needed aid and living to be obnoxious another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joining the Club | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

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