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...much tougher project. With three vehement ethnic and religious groups within, and Islamic radicals in the hills nearby, it looks more like Yugoslavia than Germany. In that sense, Iraq predicts the complexities of Asia: the religions, cultures and traditions of governance are profoundly different from ours, the chances of lethal misunderstandings far greater than they were in Europe. President Bush seemed to dismiss this concern in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Feb. 26: "It is presumptuous and insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world...is somehow untouched by the most basic aspirations of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shows Its Colors | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

AFTER TANGLING WITH HARVEY ON GANGS OF NEW YORK, YOU'RE WORKING WITH HIM AGAIN ON THE AVIATOR. ARE YOU TWO BECOMING SOME SORT OF LOVE-HATE TEAM, LIKE MEL GIBSON AND DANNY GLOVER IN THE LETHAL WEAPON SERIES? Or The Sunshine Boys. It's like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director's Cut | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, both the man and the system had sacrificed basic human values for the sake of abstract, lethal rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Shall Bear Witness | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...than a million chickens was widely credited with halting the spread of the disease. The risks of an uncontrolled viral outbreak are catastrophically high: with its tens of millions of pigs, poultry and people living in close proximity, southern China has long been one of the world's most lethal breeding grounds for killer viruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Trail of an Asian Contagion | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...other words, Hollywood thinks Jet Li is the new Bruce Lee. In the Jetster's major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

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