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...have been stolen; and scores of government buildings, including schools, have been burned down apparently for teaching Thai language and culture (the Muslims traditionally speak Malay). "It is clearly recognizable that these groups are in the early stages of arming themselves and training," says Rohan Gunaratna, a Singapore-based expert on terrorism. "There is much more bloodshed to come...
Squealing with delight, Bobby Chazen, 2, hops into a miniature 1957 Corvette and leans on the horn. Then he spins the steering wheel, flips on the radio and, giggling, steps on the gas pedal. Bobby has become an expert at putting his motor skills through their paces in the candy-red car, having been to its home, the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn., "nearly 100 times" since he was 5 months old. "When he knows we're going to the museum," Bobby's mom Candace Chazen says, "his eyes light up, and he puts on his little shoes...
...quick ascendancy surprised no one who knew her well. She served in George H.W. Bush's Administration as an expert on the Soviets and arms control, earning the admiration of Bush 41 and Brent Scowcroft. She was Stanford's provost during the Clinton years and quietly worked her way into George W. Bush's inner circle in the late 1990s. She has had trouble since then bridging the deep divide between the Bush team's hard-liners and moderates, but if she has challenged Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld in intramural arguments, she has been careful not to allow those...
...Roger Ebert called Peter Jackson's The Frighteners "a film that looks more like a demo reel than a movie--like the kind of audition tape a special-effects expert would put together, hoping to impress a producer enough to give him a real job." Ebert couldn't have known how right he was. For in making the film, Jackson had amassed a gigaload of effects technology. He just needed the right subject in which to put his cybertoys to spectacular...
Shakespeare expert and all around English luminary Harold Bloom will speak on identification of great poetry from Chaucer through Frost. Tickets have been given out, but additional seating will be done on a first-come first served basis starting ten minutes before the event. 6 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Museum...