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Maybe because four of them (Penn, Robbins, Bacon and Fishburne) have directed films. Penn, in fact, has long thought of himself as a writer-director--he has made three impressive features (The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard and The Pledge) as well as a poignant short film on 9/11--who finances his projects with acting gigs. "I was doing Super-8 movies in high school, and I loved that," he says. "But the idea that somebody was going to put 5 or 10 million dollars in a kid's pocket to direct a movie was ridiculous. 'Where are the adults...
...Perhaps the biggest shift in China's foreign policy lies in the way it handles Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province that must ultimately be reunited with the mainland. In 1996, when Taiwan's first direct presidential elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year...
...while analysts were tantalized by the prospect of a direct line between two of the world's most important technology companies - and by an announcement by Orange last month that it will sell a Motorola-made Microsoft-based phone - they remained perplexed. Has Microsoft finally established a beachhead into the lucrative but elusive European mobile market? Or is the dongle just one more vaporware announcement...
...SIGNED. APPROVAL FOR DIRECT COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE U.S., for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War; in Hanoi. The agreement, which is still being finalized, will permit passenger and cargo flights. More than 1 million ethnic Vietnamese now live in the U.S., and Americans account for the second-highest number of visitors to Vietnam, after Chinese...
...United States should stay until we've gotten Iraq on to the road to a liberal democracy with a reviving economy to boot. To do so otherwise is not only giving up Iraq to terrorists (albeit of a different sort), but a direct betrayal of our democratic roots and ideals. Eric Chan San Diego, Calif...