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Walker’s parents seem to hope the U.S. government will write the whole thing off as youthful indiscretion, a character-building experience at al-Qaeda summer camp that went horribly awry. They’ve hired a top-flight lawyer and begun lobbying Senator Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) to block treason charges. At 20, they say, he’s “just...
...audiences. “Forget what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. Mann’s stylings aside, the real test of Ali’s worth will be whether or not Smith...
...take a subway or taxi to Shinjuku station and walk east to Kabuki-cho, the red-light district, where tipsy businessmen and fashionable coeds frolic alongside transvestite hookers. The area is Disney-safe, but if it's trouble you want, look for a square bordered by cineplexes where a boxer lets patrons pummel him for a charge. From there, walk west to Green Plaza Shinjuku, across from Seibu Shinjuku station. The entrance is cheesy, but the 10-story, 24-hour spa is clean, respectable and welcomes foreigners. It features a gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor bath. There...
...Sept. 11 attacks have made an already difficult job even tougher, the panelists said. “Get the best pair of shoulder pads...get a baseball bat and boxer gloves. You’re in for a ride,” said New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, who is also president of the U.S. conference of mayors...
...attacks on Arafat will come from the PFLP organization in Damascus rather than in the West Bank or Gaza. Arafat decided to arrest at least eight of them. The Popular Front, for him, is a lightweight boxer that he can easily knock down. But he would suffer from the campaign they would launch against him from Damascus, which started yesterday with accusations that the arrests are aimed to serve only the interests of the Americans and Israelis...