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...index; a recent government inspection of state ministries uncovered 1,700 graft cases in the first nine months of this year. Some investors grumble the government is still apt to make sudden changes in taxes, for instance, without notice. "Information is a big issue," says Dominic Scriven, director of Dragon Capital, an investment-banking firm in Ho Chi Minh City. "What you thought was true in January, may no longer be true in December...
...There are still foreign-language hits - the martial-arts romance Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the oh-really-it-was-French? documentary March of the Penguins, the all-Aramaic Passion of the Christ. But those are flukes. Almost no foreign films make so much as $10 million in U.S. theaters. Ask most Americans about foreign films and they'll say they don't go to the movies to read. (These are the same people addicted to the running ribbons of copy on the news channels and the glut of statistics flashed on the screen during sports events.) In a way, foreign...
...awkward fact of human life: girls poop. That saucy little crush of yours might say that she’s getting up to “wash her hands,” but we know that she’s really running off to hatch a venomous chocolate bowl dragon. The last thing we want to think about when hooking up is that poop came out of there. We’d much rather focus on the panoply of intoxicating flavors and the sharkskin texture. To make things worse, HUPD has a way of always interrupting us when we?...
...Reviewer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu. Dragon Fire By William S. Cohen Forge Books...
...Dragon Fire” is a cautionary tale for budding politicians and aspiring novelists alike. Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has somehow managed to write a political thriller that purges both politics and thrillers of nearly every redeeming element...