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...vogue for southwestern decor and food may be as passe as the vogue for Northwestern rock bands, but New Mexico retains its grip on the national imagination, fighting off contenders like Florida (South Beach! Backyard gators!) and North Dakota (Partial site of a Coen brothers movie!) for the title of America's coolest state. Why is New Mexico still the champ? One word: Roswell...
...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...
Cerpa had let hundreds of the original hostages walk out the door, but he kept a tight grip on the 72 he valued most: senior Peruvian officials, Fujimori's brother Pedro, foreign diplomats and the Japanese ambassador. The Peruvian President assumed that he would eventually have to fight to get them back. "The talks with the guerrillas weren't going to go anywhere," says a high-ranking Peruvian military official. "As soon as the tunnel and the commandos were ready, so was he." Britain, Germany and Israel offered to help, as did the U.S., but all were turned down. "There...
...still has a firm grip on power, but there are signs of turmoil in the leadership. About half a dozen senior officials have died or been fired recently. The CIA has received reports that some military commanders have been cashiered and some units redeployed because their loyalty was questioned. The Pentagon estimates that North Korea's supply-starved army could not sustain an attack for much longer than a month. But U.S. Pacific Command chief Admiral Joseph Prueher fears that Kim could still "lash out should the survival of the regime become threatened." As long as that's possible...
...moral earnestness of an H.G. Wells and the substance it imparted to his fantasies. Evil (and, for that matter, good) should be something more than a spectacular design conceit. After the nice and not-nice E.T.s wow us with their first striking appearances, they have an obligation to grip us in slightly more profound ways. Although the cast, led by Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, tries hard, they don't make a deep impression. "Like everyone and everything else in this movie, Willis runs hard and fast and with a certain style," notes Schickel. "But neither he nor his director...