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...tells of how three women from different generations in Taipei react when faced with crises of the heart. The only Chinese movie to be selected for this year's Berlin Film Festival, 20:30:40 goes down like a happy-hour Cosmopolitan?a nice antidote to the castor oil of the typical Taiwan art-house flick. "This is not a grand story. It doesn't have a big theme," Chang says. "I just wanted to let the audience see how modern Chinese women...
...election-law violation, which he refused to do in a press conference a day before the vote. Instead, he excoriated former Daewoo Construction chief Nam Sang Kook, who was under investigation for allegedly offering $25,000 in bribes to Roh's elder brother. Nam killed himself an hour later by jumping off a bridge into the Han River. The suicide gave the Grand National Party's (GNP) Old Guard the high moral ground in its push for impeachment, persuading some wavering younger lawmakers to join the cause...
...REYKJAVIK: Turning at a stately half revolution per hour, Perlan, in the capital's east, is among Iceland's best restaurants. And if the reindeer carpaccio fails to impress, the five-story artificial geyser, erupting every five minutes, should do the trick...
...some, musical poetry still exists. Nowhere is this more inauspiciously confirmed than in the audience of a peculiar, little-known songwriter who records and travels under the moniker of “The Mountain Goats.” John Darnielle, the brains behind the Goats, brought an hour-long segment of oral poetry to an audience eager to lap up his stories and songs at T.T. the Bear’s Place last Friday night...
...little over an hour from Boston, across from an elementary school in the heart of Fairhaven, Mass., sits the Atlas Tack Company. More than 7,000 people live within a mile of Atlas. More than 15,000 live within three miles. And for more than twenty years, Atlas released cyanide, arsenic and other toxic solvents into an adjacent marsh. Then in 1990, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials finally put the site on their National Priorities List for cleanup under the Superfund program—a landmark initiative from 1980 that used to force polluters to pay for the damage they...