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...world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. That's not a Hollywood precept. What American movie would climax with the hero begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes? What U.S. movie star would dare play the part? None. Which is why Choi Min Sik's performance as Oh was not just the most bravura but the bravest on view in Cannes...
...Unlike the elegant prose of novelist Anchee Min's 1994 memoir Red Azalea (Min was similarly plucked from serfdom to join Madam Mao's cultural crusade), Li's straightforward narrative rarely delves into agonizing emotional battles, nor does Li use his experiences to comment on social and political issues. Mao's Last Dancer is nonetheless a moving story, and considering the books dedicated to Cultural Revolution horrors, it's heartening to read that someone was able to dance his way through...
...min., Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...
...min. Average wait during peak hours in security lines at 10 of the busiest airports...
...last May and October with concerns that Pentagon civilian attorneys were easing the rules of interrogation to endanger prisoner rights. Finally, an exasperated Senator asked Wolfowitz how he would judge it if foreigners interrogated an American naked and hooded, with his arms in the air for 45 min. "What you've described sounds to me like a violation of the Geneva Convention," Wolfowitz said...