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...understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers of Bangkok. Not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages, where 60 is a cop dying after he gets bitten by a cobra. Bitten in the eyeball. By a cobra that's high on meth...
...some real grownups are getting in the race. (Yes, it?s odd to call a six-time Mr. Universe and the star of Kindergarten Cop a political grownup, but Schwarzenegger has been preparing for this for years, unlike say, Coleman.) Several Republicans may file soon, though the recall's biggest backer, GOP Congressman Darrell Issa, ceded the field to Arnold. On the Democratic side Bustamante will file today and state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, another Democrat, will announce he is running. The campaign will hopefully shift from debates on whether a pornographer can run a state...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...
...facilities in foreign countries, I never would have tolerated such conduct. I am proud of my country and want to show its best qualities. As for the comment by a U.S. military official that "soldiers do this stuff all the time, everywhere. It's warfare" ?that is a total cop-out. How can we aspire to be the leader of the world if we can't even organize and properly lead our military personnel? Jon C. McKenzie Captain, U.S.N. (ret.) Fairfax...
...Arroyo is simultaneously playing good- and bad-cop with her disgruntled grunts. The government charged the mutineers with rebellion and they will also be court martialed. But Arroyo also released $1.8 million for new equipment for the rank and file, and appointed two special commissions to suggest solutions to the rebels' gripes. "Not all of us have been accounted for," warned Antonio Trillanes, one of the mutiny leaders, in a radio interview last week...