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...lines outside theaters two days before its premiere. As Japan has seen a rash of violent youth crimes recently, the film hits close to home: the day Royale opened, a 17-year-old boy wielding a baseball bat injured eight. The film's director, KINJI FUKASAKU, 70, known for gangster films and the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora!, is unapologetic. He says he wanted to relate his experience as a teen sweeping up corpses from an arms factory bombed in World War II. Watch out: Series 7, a parody of reality TV in which desert-isle players hunt one another...
Rumsfeld likes to quote a fellow Chicagoan on the efficacy of arms. "You get a lot more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone," Al Capone used to say. Rumsfeld retools the gangster's words for the post-cold war world. "You can substitute 'ballistic missile' for the word gun--and put in the names of some regional Al Capones--and it is every bit as appropriate today," he says. But even if a missile shield works, critics fear it will destabilize current alliances and trigger arms buildups by America's enemies...
...What's good for the goose is good for the gangster...
...population a decade from now, let alone maintaining social order. And the intelligence community is under no illusion that all that China needs to stave off chaos is democracy - after all, the combination of democracy and a frog march to a market economy turned Russia into a gangster's paradise, while the majority of its people suffer worse material deprivations than they had endured under communism. (Incidentally, the report sees little chance of Russia's pulling out of its precipitous dive.) One of the most dangerous scenarios for U.S. interests in Asia, Global Trends warns, is the disintegration...
...brand was born in 1992, when the group became an underground sensation by developing an urban-gangster-as-warrior persona based on old kung fu movies (RZA's passion). Wu-Tang has since evolved into a hybrid of Pokemon and Dungeons and Dragons, prepackaged for suburban teens and complete with video games, comics and, coming soon, animated films. It's all embodied in Wu-Tang's stamp of approval, a Batman-like chubby...