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...America's turn to steal scenarios, stars and directors, too. Jackie Chan has made four Hollywood films since his breakthrough in Rush Hour. His latest, The Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong...
...suckers. Having confessed, the North Koreans are now subject to diplomatic pressure. "This is an Administration that was determined not to get into a dialogue with them," says Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "and the first time they do, they make a major breakthrough." For the hawks, the real lesson from North Korea is that treaties, communiques and compromises don't work when you are dealing with someone who will lie right through the signing ceremony--unless you have a gun in your hand. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...solve the Bali massacre, the police could certainly do with some help. They are desperate for a breakthrough. The investigators are still a long way from naming a suspect, establishing a motive or connecting the deadly strike to jihadis. "Our net is still cast very wide," says Major General I. Made Mangku Pastika, the Balinese-born police chief appointed by Jakarta to head the investigation. General Pastika occupies one of the hottest seats in Indonesia. Getting some solid arrests?none have been made so far?will reassure the international community that President Megawati Sukarnoputri is serious about the need...
...appeared to be escalating. When Pakistan tested its Shaheen missile system (capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Indian capital of New Delhi) India retorted with its own provocative rocket launch within hours. Surprisingly, however, such brinkmanship may have spooked both nations enough to force a breakthrough in relations. When New Delhi announced on Wednesday that it was pulling back some of its 500,000 troops posted along its border with Pakistan, Islamabad said it would follow suit, and everyone concerned about potential nuclear holocaust in South Asia exhaled...
...house, but Ramsay wants to be in the cineplex, too. "I also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay isn't waiting around to see whether Morvern Caller will be her breakthrough movie; she's already writing an adaptation of Alice Sebold's runaway best-seller The Lovely Bones, which is due to begin shooting next summer. She remains unperturbed by the recent collapse of the production house that commissioned her for the job. It's just another extraordinary situation, calling...