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...between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented by investment banker Jack Whimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), comes off as being more corrupt and far more superficial than its ethnically diverse neighbor...
...portrayed, has demonstrated a remarkable willingness to risk both his hold on power and his life on foreign gambits that had little chance of success. As Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA analyst, pointed out in a New York Times op-ed piece, Hussein, believing Iraq could dominate its larger neighbor, started a bloody eight-year war with Iran that decimated his army and almost caused his government to fall. By 1988, the final year of the war against Iran, Iraq was riven with rebellion; only Hussein’s singular ferocity in dealing with domestic unrest, as exemplified...
...conservative told the audience he is "ready to meet" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation. That's an unexpected disclosure from a politician who has been advocating that his countrymen take a tough stand against the nuclear ambitions of their northern neighbor. Lee isn't going soft on North Korea. "It's a show," says Lee Tae Jun, author of a critical book on the candidate, "an attempt at camouflage to boost his votes at the last minute...
...cause disorder, criminal damage and wounding a police officer during rioting in Antwerp. Police also held 20 youths of North African descent after two nights of rioting in the country's second city. The violence began after schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak was shot dead, allegedly by his 66-year old neighbor, whom authorities charged with the murder. Prosecutors said he was mentally unstable. AUSTRIA Party Pooper Maverick far-right politician Joerg Haider said that he would remain in politics despite the disastrous performance of his Freedom Party in the country's general elections. Haider threatened to resign as governor...
After weeks of delicate negotiations, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution forcing Iraq to disarm or confront "serious consequences"--most likely war. Iraq's neighbor Syria, widely expected to abstain, was the last country to come around in favor of the measure, after intense lobbying by France, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and even some moderate Arab states. Annan cautioned Syria, the council's only Arab member, that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might exploit its nonvote in his propaganda. Now Iraq has until Nov. 15 to accept the terms of the decree; U.N. weapons inspectors must resume...