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...Philippines is a land of storytellers, but the saga of the modern nation remains largely unknown beyond its own shores. Han Ong would appear to be in a good position to fill the post of bard. The native Filipino immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16, achieved success there as a playwright and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. His first novel, Fixer Chao, was about a Filipino male prostitute in New York City who poses as a feng-shui expert to fleece the rich...
...cockpit is not answering their phone. There's somebody stabbed in business class, and we can't breathe." BETTY ONG, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, in a tape heard last week by a 9/11 commission...
...There's somebody stabbed in business class and we can't breathe. Somebody's got Mace or something ... I think we're getting hijacked." Betty Ong, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, in an audiotape heard last week by the 9/11 Commission...
...John of Fawsley, and opposes a payout to ex-CEO Tony Ball. A BSkyB spokesman says James is committed to dividends "in the future." If the Murdochs were to sell tickets to Friday's clash, they could pay dividends now. - By Mark Halper Will The Elves Unionize? L ong before Santa loads up this Christmas, the real work will have been done - but not by Lapland's little helpers. China's 10,000 toy factories - which account for almost three-quarters of the world's production - are, as always, expected to deliver on time. But from now on, workers' welfare...
...East can also borrow from East. Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior is a Thai gloss on the old Hong Kong plots that spurred heroes from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan: kid from the country (superhuman martial artist Petchtai Wongkamlao) comes to the city on a noble mission, takes infernal beatings, kicks back even more furiously. It's insanely vigorous fun that's guaranteed to delight video action fans on four continents. Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring starts as a tale of spiritual apprenticeship (boy taught by old monk) that might have come...