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...when the U.S. and the Soviets refused to attend each other's Olympiads, and delegates may be leery of allowing geopolitical conflict to determine the movement's agenda. And direct criticism of China on human rights grounds tends to be confined to Western nations. Taking the recent defeat of the U.S. in an election for the U.N. Human Rights Commission as an indicator, it would be safe to say that an attempt by Washington to campaign against a Beijing Olympiad could easily end in an embarrassing failure...
...These last alternatives have been denied consistently by former Socialist leader Felipe González, Prime Minister from 1982 until his defeat by the incumbent José María Aznar in 1996, and various inquiries have not found grounds to charge González with a single offense. Not so his former Interior Minister, José Barrionuevo, or his former State Security Director, Rafael Vera; both were convicted over the first GAL-claimed crime, a 1983 kidnapping...
Time and Tide, a drugs-'n'-guns saga in which two young gangsters (Nicholas Tse and Wu Bai) join forces to defeat some South American cartel cuties, may have no meaning other than its own kinetic rush, but who cares? This is more than an exercise in style; it's a 113-minute Soloflex workout--the movie-est movie of the year. It has dynamite set pieces, like a gun chase in the corridors under a banquet hall and the climactic scene where a young woman (Candy Lo) gives birth at the precise moment that she also blasts a killer...
...Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer...
...their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"--cold comfort...