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...area that has left at least 50 people dead, most of whom were local officials or police. Somchai claimed that police tortured the five suspects to extract confessions, an allegation the authorities deny. He also led a campaign to gather 50,000 signatures to petition the government to abolish martial law in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Discomfort | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...Doting audiences have seen Zhao grow from elfin youth to cagey comedian. In the international hit Shaolin Soccer she plays a shy baker with an extravagant case of eczema who shaves her head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Cute | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...Which brought the interview to the crux of Gardner?s beef against Kerry. Gardner-who remembers no important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...hardnosed Gardner returned from Vietnam in February 1969; Kerry came home a month later. The two men haven?t spoken in nearly 35 years. Kerry has no recollection of any of Gardner?s accusations, including the threatening of a court martial. None of PCF-44?s crew trusts Gardner?s memory. Today Gardner claims he works at Millennium Services (an insurance inspection company) and is bitter about Kerry?s national prominence. At various times in our interview he complained about Kerry ?running around with Hanoi Jane? after the war and having a ?rich wife.? And-like Limbaugh-he is determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tenth Brother | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...Taiwan lifts martial law after 38 years and allows its nationals to visit relatives in China for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cross-Strait Strains | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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