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...President George W. Bush called it "heavy-handed." Israeli President Moshe Katsav said Israel's political leadership "must take responsibility" for the "mishap" of civilian deaths. Diplomats noted that Palestinians had been close to a deal to end attacks on Israeli civilians. Now all bets are off. UNITED KINGDOM I.R.A. Warned The British Government warned the Irish Republican Army that its political wing Sinn Féin could be thrown out of power in Northern Ireland if paramilitary violence persists. The warning came as the government pledged a stricter approach to assessing cease-fire breaches. Prime Minister Tony Blair told...
...cuttingly intelligent actor who put the menace in the Method; from kidney failure; in Los Angeles. After Navy service he joined an Actors Studio class that included Marlon Brando (whose corruptive brother he would play in On the Waterfront) and helped to free stage and film performance from the kingdom of nice. But Steiger was no mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker's death-camp survivor...
...what are ostensibly the sarcophagi of Changsu and his consort. It's a telling display of the two national claims on the site. Hearing of my interest in Koguryo, the guide challenges me, eager to gauge my opinion on a controversial subject. "Was Koguryo a Chinese or Korean kingdom?" she asks. Not wanting to offend, I say I do not know. "Zhongguo de (it was Chinese)," she gushes. If he's still there, King Changsu must be turning in his tomb...
Potter-besotted readers worldwide are desperate for author J.K. Rowling to stop counting her gazillions and finish the next Harry Potter book. But in China, there's no need to wait. Middle Kingdom readers are eagerly slapping down $1.80 for Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People...
...stela's resting place-an open, peak-roofed pavilion hidden behind a high wall only a few paces from her home. "The taiwangbei," she pronounces, with a flourish. "The stela of the great King." That's how the locals know it. Which King and of what kingdom she is not entirely sure. "An ancient kingdom," she explains with a dismissive brush of her hand. She tells me instead how she works during the week in Shenyang at her sister's restaurant to make ends meet, and would like to know if I would be interested in using her husband...