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...establish new bases of operations where they can plan, communicate with far-flung cells, raise and disperse funds and move about with some security. As US strategists see it, al Qaeda members will be looking to establish safe bases in nations that are politically and militarily weak, corruptible and chaotic, yet with enough vestiges of civilization so that they can get in and out of the country via air or boat, send money via the regular banking system or hawalas and use telephone and e-mail...
...Bradby could hardly have found a better setting for his smoky police yarn than this chaotic entrepot. In 1926, Shanghai was run by a trinity of competing interests. There were separate law enforcement offices for the International Settlement and the French Concession and cooperation was strained at best. And in the Chinese section of the city?past the reach of the colonial powers?justice was summary execution at the will of the neighborhood triad boss. This lawlessness combined with the wealth pouring into Shanghai's bustling port encouraged young, ambitious men and women with flexible scruples to dream and scheme...
...their heyday, Einstürzende Neubauten (whose name translates literally to “collapsing new buildings”) were amongst the pioneers of industrial music. Their sound was a chaotic brew of growled vocals, droning noise and their trademark: loud, clanging percussion made by banging power tools against metal (among other techniques). Twenty years later, the scene is but a faint memory and the band’s lineup has been halved, but their experiments in rhythm and texture continue...
...confident that his multiple honors for Gosford Park (from the Globes, the AFI, and the New York critics, among others) are a sufficient bellwether for an Oscar nod. Ridley Scott’s DGA and AFI nominations for his command of Black Hawk Down’s chaotic battle sequences also make him a probable nominee. David Lynch has an outside shot for bringing an impeccable assuredness to the surreal Mulholland Drive, as does In theBedroom’s Todd Field...
...seven months Peng will be slaving away on a continent far from the comforts and security of college life in Cambridge. With hopes of leisure activities perhaps unjustifiably high, she leaves behind nights at the Hong Kong for chaotic days and endless office work in Hong Kong...