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...have released unconditionally Guillermo Sobero" (one of the three American captives). The spokesman then paused before delivering his taunting punchline: "But we have released him without his head." That morning, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was due to oversee Manila's Independence Day parade with its marching bands and martial displays, but first she checked with her "security cluster," a special team camped out in the ornate dining room of MalacaNang, the presidential palace, to monitor the three-week-old hostage crisis. Arroyo was told Sobero's body had not been found, but as the Philippine Chief of Staff General Diomedio...
MOVIE Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon "It was such a beautiful movie to watch. Even the martial arts were like ballet...
...docile palace guards, trained more for fawning servitude than martial prowess, had no way of knowing that the Friday-night comings and goings of Nepal's huffy Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, would turn out to be the prelude to a dynastic catastrophe. When the Crown Prince and his cousin Prince Paras, 27, arrived at the palace for the royal family's regular Friday dinner, they were dressed casually in khaki slacks and polo shirts and had already had a few drinks. The two were notorious prowlers of the Kathmandu night-life circuit, regulars at the X-Zone nightclub...
...knuckle boxing has been outlawed in Thailand since 1923: too many fighters never awoke from that conclusive knockout, often delivered by a fist of hemp rubbed in ground glass. Nevertheless, tournaments are tolerated, partly because Muay Thai has a place in the country's history. Siamese soldiers perfected the martial art in the 16th century, and Thais have been flooring Burmese since as long ago as the 18th century, when soldier Nai Khanom won his freedom from captors by defeating 12 top Burmese fighters. To this day, many Thais ascribe their status as the sole unconquered Asian nation to Muay...
...couple of weeks ago at Camp David. That's where we usually see movies. We've seen some here, [at the White House] of course, but we always see them on the weekend when we're at Camp David. I thought it was so beautiful. Even the martial arts part of it was like ballet...