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...femmes do fantastic battle with 9th century cops (Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro) who pursue and fall in love with them. Daggers would be an excellent adventure even without its leading lady. But as the new embodiment of Chinese beauty and resilience, she gives the film a kind of buoyant gravity. Daggers is serious and it soars...
...bucket") and the eight boys, each smartly defined, each bright, each needy or greedy. On stage, the evening belongs to Griffiths, as a pied piper of "useless" culture. But the mind behind it is Bennett's, as wry and sly as ever. The History Boys shows that a buoyant comedy can provide a splendid education. And do we mean that? Entirely...
...Karl Rove believe that Americans want a strong, God-fearing, plainspoken leader who doesn't burden them with complexities. That was certainly true in the recent past, as the nation wafted through an unprecedented period of affluence. It may still be true. The President's poll ratings remain buoyant, despite ample evidence in recent weeks that his Iraq policies are trending toward disaster...
Putin's image is that of an energetic, forceful reformer. He has restored Russia's self-confidence after a miserable decade of chaos and humiliation. Yet the buoyant economy is held up by oil and natural-gas prices--which once made the Soviet Union seem like the way of the future, until prices collapsed. Putin has not used the boom to diversify the country's economic base. He claims victory in Chechnya but has only devastated the tiny republic, not pacified it. Hard-line Chechen secessionists are waging a pitiless war of urban terrorism in Moscow and elsewhere. Russia...
...Karl Rove believe that Americans want a strong, God-fearing, plainspoken leader who doesn't burden them with complexities. That was certainly true in the recent past, as the nation wafted through an unprecedented period of affluence. It may still be true. The President's poll ratings remain buoyant, despite ample evidence in recent weeks that his Iraq policies are trending toward disaster...