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...comes Rush Hour 3, with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker reprising their roles as two detectives with clashing personalities and, in previous installments, a lock on the box office. The first movie was a surprise hit, earning $141 million in North America and $244 million worldwide. The sequel upped the domestic take by 60%, the worldwide gross by 42%. Simple arithmetic called for No. 3. And here...
Everything becomes curiously inverted when you're five miles above the sea. Children, on the 18 1/2 hour flight from Los Angeles to Singapore, become the very opposite of a breath of fresh air. Home becomes the place you hardly recognize (while that foreign airport comes to seem very much like home). Night becomes the time when you're wide awake. During my two days in California, I try to avoid jet lag by getting up at noon and doing most of my work while everyone else is sleeping...
...Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to demand the release of some 100 journalists and online activists imprisoned in China. As if to prove the group's point about the mainland's restrictions on media and freedom of speech, police detained a group of journalists for more than an hour after the event. Amnesty International also issued a statement this week about human rights in the country, warning that the detention of dissidents, harassment of lawyers and restrictions on domestic media could tarnish the legacy of the Beijing Games. For their part, dissidents within China say they welcome the attention...
...Part of the dwindling interest can be explained by the overall slump in music sales, but there's no question that MTV has also abandoned a lot of the audience that would once have had an interest in a three-hour-plus music awards show. With videos now as rare as senior citizens on the channel - and yes, even complaining about the relative scarcity marks one's age - the current MTV audience has become intolerant of extensive music programming...
...Pakistan's lawless tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan, some places are less wild than others. The Mohmand Agency, just a half-hour drive from the city of Peshawar, had long been known as the calmest and most moderate in the region and over the past few years managed to avoid the Talibanization and violence of its neighbors. It was rare to see people in public carrying guns. Women don't wear veils when they do their daily chores outside their homes or visit neighbors. There were only a handful of seminaries. And it was difficult to find anti...