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...portrayal of the master-chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of the Mattel toy company and creator of the world's most popular doll, Barbie; in Los Angeles. The blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie was named after Handler's daughter Barbara, and since its introduction in 1959 more than 1 billion dolls have been sold in more than...
...large part from the CIA's inability to gather human intelligence about foreign threats. The agency, a senior Administration official concedes, "got out of the human intelligence business in favor of technical collection" after the fall of the Soviet Union. Today the average overseas assignment for an agency spy-handler is three years, barely enough time to learn one's way around, let alone penetrate a terror cell. And with the passing of the Soviet threat, many CIA officials lost interest in doing dirty human espionage--which means recruiting dangerous characters who can act as spies and infiltrate terror networks...
Arrested at London's Heathrow Airport last February, he is in custody fighting extradition to the U.S., where he was indicted in August for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing money, safe houses and other material support to terrorists. He is alleged to have been the handler of fellow Algerian Ahmed Ressam, an operative living in Montreal who was arrested in December 1999 while trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in a rental car filled with homemade explosives; in April, Ressam was convicted of plotting to blow up lax on New Year's Eve. Italian antiterrorist police believe...
...Garner delivers. Tall and slim, with flying buttresses for cheekbones and pincushion lips, she is saved from true, distracting beauty by her masculine jaw and long forehead. Garner can be vulgar when Bristow is threatened with anesthesia-free dentistry, vulnerable when she's dealing with her morose CIA handler and horrified when she discovers her fiance murdered in the bath. But mostly Garner spunkily goes about the business of gathering intelligence and trapping bad guys as if spies were just women who are really good at multitasking...
...thing that makes Drew so impressive as a defensive player is that [by pressuring the ball-handler] he creates steals for the rest of us,” Prasse-Freeman said. “His defensive prowess is not even encapsulated in the steals statistic...