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...about the result, which is not in doubt. What Hong Kong's people want to know is whether Tsang and his team can address the many challenges faced by one of the world's truly great cities. On the surface, Hong Kong is doing just fine, thank you. The economy is humming along-gdp growth was 6.8% in 2006 and is forecast to be at least a respectable 4.5% this year, not bad at all for a mature, first-world city. The stock market has dipped in recent weeks because of the global slump in equities, but is still...
...Crashers), fetishists (Big Earl in Starsky & Hutch), a Nazi (Franz Liebkind in The Producers) and an idiot version of Bob Woodward (Dick). "I wouldn't want anyone to feel uncomfortable with what I'm doing, but if that's a casualty of what's happening? Then I'm totally fine with that...
...point. "In Blades we do a thing where I tell the story of my life"--wearing only a towel--"with my tattoos, but that's for story purposes." He's laughing now. "I'm trying to think. Do we do it in Semi-Pro? No, I think I'm fine. Oh, there's one photo of me with a basketball in front of my crotch, just lying on a bench, which is a replica of a real photo, and, um, so that'll probably be in the movie. Who am I kidding...
...Fine Art of Dying Well" [March 12], Charles Krauthammer observed that timing is everything, even when it comes to death. This reminded me of three deaths that occurred on Nov. 22, 1963. Many Americans recall it as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but two prominent British men of letters died on that day as well. One of them was C.S. Lewis, the Christian apologist and writer of children's stories; the other was Aldous Huxley, the novelist and essayist, member of the famous Huxley family and author of the dystopian Brave New World. Bad timing indeed...
...something that made a deep impression on us," Groopman says. So if it's January, your doctor has just seen 14 patients with the flu and you show up with muscle aches and a fever, he or she is more likely to say you have the flu--which is fine unless it's really meningitis or a reaction to a tetanus shot that you forgot to mention...