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...more serious approach helps to explain why Zhang cast him for the role of an imperial guard with a serious Machiavellian streak, in his latest movie, House of Flying Daggers, which is scheduled for release this summer. Shot on a budget of about $20 million, Daggers is set in China's Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) and follows the loves, loyalties and betrayals between imperial rulers and members of an underground martial-arts society. Expectations are high: Zhang's 2002 film Hero earned an Oscar nomination and broke mainland box-office records for a Chinese movie by raking in some...
...looking the other way. They contest the proposed federal structure. Iraq should be helped to create a police force and secret service that will fight the gangs of insurgents. If Iraqis cannot neutralize those killers, outside troops cannot help. Also, the U.S. and its allies need to explain in Arabic to the Iraqis what the coalition forces are doing in their country: bringing peace. Distrust of the U.S. military is growing, not abating. This is a public relations failure that must be corrected. Edouard Prisse Amsterdam...
...students with the task of writing papers and the prospect of facing exams upon our return to Cambridge. When we finally take our exams in mid-to-late January, a month or more has often passed since we were last in class. As we all know, most efforts to explain this ridiculous system to friends and family at home are met with either laughter or sincere apologies...
...what overall logic or principles, Kerry's opponents ask, can he explain a 1991 vote against the first Gulf War, a 2002 vote for the second and a 2003 vote against the money to pay for it? Only the logic of political opportunism, they answer. A certain amount of meandering may be part of any Senator's voting record, but Kerry also takes a walkabout in his own sentences. As voters get to know him better, they may see in his life, his choices and his principles a more complicated picture than Bush presents and one that the Republicans...
...measure of his convictions, whether it's his immovable commitment to cut taxes or his resolve to take out Saddam Hussein. That has given the President a weird advantage when he decides to change course, as he has on occasion throughout his tenure. There is no attempt to explain his turnabouts, no ruminations on the meaning of is. Bush does not utter the phrase, "What I meant to say was ..." The sheer size of his reversals makes them, by some political alchemy, seem like acts of principle by a fearless Executive unafraid of bold actions, including bold retreats...