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...kingdom of Saudi Arabia often solves its problems by bringing them to a place unofficially called "chop-chop square." Crowds gather at the site next to a mosque in the center of the capital of Riyadh, and they watch as an executioner swings his sword and cuts off the heads of public enemies. That was the punishment meted out to four young men earlier this year after they confessed to the November 1995 bombing of an American-run training center in downtown Riyadh, an attack that killed seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely...
...Close is a good sport when Cruella receives her comeuppance. Mock-refinement and unbridled laughter are replaced by a series of embarrassing pratfalls in which the animal kingdom retaliates against Cruella...
...contempt for the returning Hutu. Many more, however, seemed to greet the returnees with Ruziga's air of orderly acceptance and restraint--an outlook that may stem from Rwanda's unique social structure. Unlike most African nations, which were cobbled together by colonial mapmakers, Rwanda was a tightly organized kingdom long before the Europeans arrived. A Tutsi god-king headed an elaborate system of civil administration, taxation and military conscription that the Germans and Belgians left largely intact, even as they tightened the screws. When independence came, with a 1959 Hutu revolution, the new rulers inherited a near totalitarian state...
...early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale skin. So, as in his 1994 Danish TV series, The Kingdom (a bizarre blend of ER and Twin Peaks), he uses a handheld camera that swivels like a bobble-head doll. It's intimate, all right, and utterly maniacal--as deranged as the villagers think Bess has become...
...throes of restructuring, and now has to deal with an archrival that just became a heavyweight. AT&T chairman Robert Allen didn't wait long to complain that the playing field is not level. AT&T, he asserted, faces barriers to providing full service in the United Kingdom, where BT controls more than 90% of the local phone connections. Allen urged regulators to make scrutiny of the merger "a global priority of the highest order." In the U.S., where BT will ask for a waiver of the 25% ceiling on foreign ownership of American communications companies, such scrutiny could take...