Word: lai
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...working for a no-name syndication agency when he heard a tip, blagged his way into a military attorney’s office (a tactic he has since called “smarmy”), and hunted down Lieutenant William J. Calley. He broke the story on the My Lai Massacre after he bought Calley steak and bourbon...
...writing was mournful, wounded, and intensely personal, even though the invective he hurled was superficial and the drugged-out trips painfully clichéd. He didn’t have the cold, analytical mind of Hersh (who admitted that he broke the My Lai story mostly because he lusted for the Pulitzer). Doc had the necessarily disappointed ideals of Kerouac and Bukowski. His writing always turned the knife, but never forgot the beating heart...
...Seoul Raiders is a Lunar New Year movie, the cinematic equivalent of a red packet of lai see money. But it's Leung's laid-back attitude that makes this trifle go down easier, as he walks around Seoul with a Cheshire cat's grin. After four years of surviving endless takes by meticulous Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, who worked with him in the recent 2046, Leung deserves a New Year vacation away from his home city-and from self-serious filmmaking...
...Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1945. Now the former colonial master is effectively promising to watch-guard its former subjects and their tense relationship with mainland China. If Taiwanese were skeptical or ambivalent, they didn't express it. "The joint declaration is a check on China," says Lai Hsin-yuan, a former adviser to Taiwan's National Security Council. Says Koh Se-kai, Taiwan's de facto ambassador in Tokyo: "We are very happy...
...interviews arranged by local officials, government representatives and some Montagnards echoed the official accounts. But these were not supported by anyone interviewed away from oversight. Photographs obtained from a Jarai demonstrator now in Cambodia show marchers in Gia Lai carrying banners calling for land and religious rights and the removal of soldiers from villages?not for an independent state. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International assert that the security forces initiated the fighting and incited civilians to attack the marchers, injuring hundreds. A doctor who was on duty that weekend in Dak Lak's main hospital told TIME that "many...