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...returned to the crime genre with Brother. Shot in Tokyo and Los Angeles, this is a hyper-violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead and the other half wants to have a chat with him. He has managed to tick off every Japanese, Mexican, black...
Where else would low-level staff members enjoy high-ceilinged offices in a Beaux Arts-inspired building while senior execs cram into windowless cubicles? Only in the White House. Everyone wants to be in the West Wing near the President. Here's how Bush has divvied up his staff...
...over Palestinian rioters without soldiers' shooting into crowds. Instead, Eiland's snipers would take positions above the rioters, picking off only the ringleaders and anyone carrying a gun or a Molotov cocktail. The strategy was a centerpiece of Operation Ebb and Flow, the army's code name for the low-level warfare it has waged around the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for more than two months. The accuracy of the snipers was supposed to reduce casualties. It was a logic that seemed clear after the scattershot exchanges of the tunnel riots killed at least...
According to Frank, immigrants convicted of low-level drug offenses face deportation, while seizure laws allow the police to take property of those suspected of being involved in drug transactions...
...presidency was a difficult affair. He arrived in office in 1990 as a popular reformer, a man who planned to fix Peru's damaged economy and rebuild a society fractured by drug dealings and decades of low-level civil war. Doing all that, however, required that Fujimori use a firm hand. As the years went by, the hand became harsher, and Fujimori's government became more susceptible to charges of corruption. He won a third term earlier this year, but the vote was clouded with suspicion. By September, when he said he would step down the following July, Peruvians were...