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...piece of soft aluminum. But the opportunity to plunge into the burdleburple of sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kids Are Us! | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...with the KGB, which denied the fugitive entry into their crumbling empire but allowed him to sneak back into China undetected, is a plot twist worthy of a thriller. Much of Escape from China reads like a novel, with the author as the resourceful hero whose struggle epitomizes the fate of the individual under totalitarianism. That Zhang has come to see his journey in religious terms?he was born again in the snows of Siberia, and is now a pastor in Los Angeles?is a passage taken by many of the Tiananmen Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Escape | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...that Milosevic is likely to get off when the trial wraps up two years from now. Prosecutors are building a strong legal case against him. Milosevic may be holding his own in the eyes of many Serbs, but it will be U.N. judges, not opinion polls, that decide his fate. Until then, Milosevic will continue to primp and proclaim on TV sets across Serbia. "He looks like he would do it all again," says Kandic, shaking her head. In fact, he probably would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Power in Serbia | 9/22/2002 | See Source »

...bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate. All in all, it was a rough day for the Marines. "It was very difficult to find a place to hide," says Hernandez. "If this had been real life, this would have been as far as I'd have gotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Door To Door | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...director's final cut and that he doesn't plan to do any more war movies, but that may not be enough to prevent his blacklisting. Vietnam's Ministry of Culture?kind of a Supreme Court of censorship?is now reviewing the film and will decide Duong's fate soon. Meanwhile, he can be seen in the current release Green Dragon , a refugee-camp drama by Vietnamese-American brothers Timothy Linh Bui and Tony Bui. It may be the last chance to see him for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yet Another Casualty of A Lousy War | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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