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...would like students to consider Tommy’s as their Harvard canteen shop,” he says between puffs of a cigarette in his makeshift office in the basement of the store...
...keeping with Kon's taste for offbeat topics, Tokyo Godfathers follows a makeshift family of homeless people?transvestite ex-drag queen Hana, scruffy middle-aged bum Gin and runaway teenager Miyuki?who discover an abandoned baby in a garbage heap and embark on a search for its parents. It's a briskly paced comedy with a gentle core and a prickly surface. ("You can't get milk from an old queer's tits," yells Gin, mocking Hana's burgeoning maternal instincts.) Set during Christmas in a gorgeously detailed, snow-softened Tokyo, it's also one of the most affectionate, meticulous...
...donkey carts. At least two civilians were injured in several strikes on the Palestine and Sheraton hotels - the heavily-guarded homes to Western journalists and civil defense contractors. A similar attack aiming as many as 10 missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive devices planted near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad and close to the offices of a Kurdish political party were disarmed by U.S. troops. - By Adam Smith Holding the Cards SPAIN The pro-independence Catalan Republican Left party nearly doubled its representation in the Catalan assembly, winning...
...Afghanistan last year and arrived in Iraq two months ago with Charlie Company of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. "Nobody has delusions of grandeur that we're going to be the ones to catch Saddam Hussein," says Bear, 33, sitting in his makeshift sleeping quarters at the battalion's base--a former Baath Party resort named Dreamland, just outside Fallujah. "We're just here to do our little bit in our little patch of Iraq...
...team found makeshift solutions for what it hoped were temporary setbacks and still pounded out wins by any means necessary...