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...Shah came home after nearly 30 years in exile. Fears for his safety had delayed his return from Italy several times, but the country's most dangerous places still seemed to be the southern plains and the eastern mountains. A U.S. warplane accidentally dropped a laser-guided bomb on Canadian soldiers training near Kandahar, killing four, and in the mountain valleys southeast of Gardez, British marines began their first combat deployment since...
...incarnation of the Sun is backed financially by Canadian newspaper baron Conrad Black and several individual New Yorkers...
...CZECH POINT: PW is overwhelmed by "Prague" by Arthur Phillips (Random House; June 18), giving it a starred box, its highest accolade. "Everything about this dazzling first novel is utterly original, including the title?. It's about a group of young American (and one Canadian) expatriates living in Budapest in 1990, just after the Communist empire has collapsed and the point of 'Prague' is that it's the place everyone would rather be, except they have all somehow settled for Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important...
...trying half-decade JOHN NASH Beautiful Mind's house won't be condemned. And the imaginary bunker next to his "indoor basketball court" will still exist only in his head Losers BILL GATES Microsoftie April Fooled when two DJs convince him they're Jean Chr?tien. It's plausible the Canadian PM has nothing to do but crank call NE WIN Burmese ex-dictator's relatives charged with treason, and he's under Suu Kyi-style house arrest. The sound you hear is poetic justice APOLO ANTON OHNO U.S. skater voted "least welcome" by South Korean students. South Koreans obviously haven...
...sums up the aftertaste of Hal Harltey’s new film, No Such Thing. Whereas the usual Hollywood fare aims for gargantuan laughs, chilling fear or blubbering tears, No Such Thing offers hard-edged dreaminess and bemused chuckles. Experienced through the fatalistic eyes of young Beatrice, played by Canadian Sarah Polley, our world is scarily believable as a topsy-turvy purgatory...