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...stardom in Europe. Finally, in 1931, at 26, she got top billing in her first American talkie, director Lloyd Corrigan's Daughter of the Dragon - which, in its unabashed melodramatic excess, its rampaging ethnic stereotypes and the opportunity it affords its star to be simultaneously sexy and grave, sympathetic and villainous, qualifies the film as the definitive Anna May Wong movie...
...flow of information in the Roman Curia would have nothing to gain from telling the world's one billion Catholics not to worry if they knew that tomorrow would bring bad news. Still, one well-placed Vatican official told TIME that the situation Tuesday night was most likely more grave than the official word that the hospitalization was simply "precautionary...
...than 100 people are believed to have been killed. African Union monitors said the Sudanese air force was responsible for the aerial bombardment, in breach of a truce agreed between the government and local rebel factions last year. Annan said the incident was "the latest in a series of grave cease-fire violations." The Last Word CHINA Thousands of mourners attended the tightly controlled funeral in Beijing of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died Jan. 17. After the ceremony, the official Xinhua News Agency released an obituary referring to Zhao's "serious mistakes" in dealing with...
...failed in its most basic obligation to protect Australian citizens," said Shadow Attorney General Nicola Roxon. But since Australia's counterterrorism laws weren't yet in force when Hicks and Habib were captured, they could not have been prosecuted at home, said Attorney General Philip Ruddock. Given the "grave nature" of the allegations against them, it was felt that "seeking to return them (to Australia) would not be a desirable outcome ... in terms of our security." The Law Council's Southwood says "the government should have insisted from the outset that Hicks and Habib be either charged or released"; Ruddock...
...National Guard and Army reservists on active duty last week, including 60,000 inside Iraq. In a Dec. 20 memo published in the Baltimore Sun last week, Lieut. General James Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, warned that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put in "grave danger" his force's ability to fulfill other Pentagon missions or help grapple with domestic emergencies. "I do not wish to sound alarmist," wrote Helmly, who won a Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam. "I do wish to send a clear, distinctive signal of deepening concern." Helmly's memo split the Pentagon...