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Crouched in the undergrowth around the village of Samaki in northern Cambodia are several dozen men wearing protective vests and visors, looking like alien invaders. They skim the ground in front of them with metal detectors, and occasionally one raises an arm, a whistle is blown, and everyone moves back...
Neither host is an expert interviewer, and Spencer can be particularly awkward, but both are fairly relaxed and pleasant presences. Each has his mildly funny moments, mining the same vein of racial humor. Spencer's joke about his show in his first monologue--"How often can a brother go into...
The rookie does fine. He leaves the plot propulsion to the Scorsese grads--Keitel as a mob-controlled cop covering up a killing, De Niro as a flinty internal-affairs detective on Keitel's trail, Liotta as a good-bad cop--while he watches, listens, recedes into the wallpaper. Mining...
Just a few months after the reform's passage, however, the industry of lobbyists was back urging that their clients' special provisions be added back to the law. To pay for all the reinstated goodies to oil and gas, mining, real estate and countless other interests, tax rates went up...
Earlier this year, the Canadian company Bre-X created a scandal when it reported that the 200 million oz. of gold it had "discovered" were a hoax. That may not be all bad: investors don't have much use for the stuff anyway. Recently Australia, the world's third largest...