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...hard to imagine a headier celebrity cocktail. Grand dame Japanese designer Emi Wada, who won an Oscar for Akira Kurosawa's Ran, is doing the costumes. Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger composer Tan Dun has been tapped for the score. But Academy toasts and red-carpet strolls are a long way off, and Zhang's attitude toward his work is decidedly sober. He must lead cast and crew through the grueling 150-day, 7-a.m.-to-midnight production schedule, slated to finish at the end of January. This afternoon, they are filming in Hengdian TV & Movie City - a local entrepreneur...
Deep in the southwestern corner of Arizona, the dun-colored desert shudders underfoot as the Army's newest big gun, belching flame and smoke, blasts fire extinguisher-size artillery rounds farther and faster than ever before. Now under development, the Crusader is the world's most fearsome mobile howitzer. It is also among the costliest and heaviest ever built. And because of all that, it may be one of the fattest targets for the Bush Defense Department. Incoming Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is under orders from the new Commander in Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld...
...Bill Richardson's troubles, history may remember this as the year the secretary of energy got a very big promotion. Richardson announced Friday the administration's intention to dun the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for 30 million barrels of crude oil, and while the professed reason is to head off a heating-oil shortage this winter, Bill Clinton may have just created a new version of Alan Greenspan...
North of Boise a few days ago, I drove through high mountain desert - bald, sere, dun country with the look of the Middle East about it. The sky glared nearly white, hazed but cloudless, and the air was a breath of blast furnace, the temperature at 104 F. Military trucks passed, carrying more firefighters north to the Burgdorf fire...
...years at Radcliffe. Colby currently serves as a senior scholar at the California-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Sorensen's hiring makes one fewer vacant post for Fay House to fill, as the Radcliffe administration seeks replacements for Vice President for Finance and Administration Nancy Dun and Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin. Both departed Radcliffe in the last month...