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...several occasions, small crowds boldly confronted policemen who tried to interfere with the fun. "You think you have power just because you have a walkie-talkie!" yelled a young man on a motorcycle, boldly taunting a bearded fundamentalist from the basij, a volunteer force responsible for upholding strict Islamic conduct. "You see how happy we are," said Vaheed Aghani, 20, born the year before Khomeini came to power, who was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt. "Why should the government try to stop us?" Among the revelers was Ibrahim Yazdi, Khomeini's first Foreign Minister, ousted by Islamic militants after...
Until a year or so ago, the estimated 1.8 million Kosovars responded to Belgrade's iron hand largely with passive resistance. Then a small militant group calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army started killing Serb policemen and Kosovar collaborators. By the end of last year, they had carved out several no-go zones in the central region, pushing the Serb police into hasty retreat. Starting Feb. 28, Milosevic ordered a lethal sweep against the strongest of the rebel zones, killing more than 80 Kosovars, including 30 women, children and elderly...
...keep it, lose it, steal it, and above all kill for it. The world of noir is populated by gangsters, heiresses and thieves. The detective's work is usually motivated more by the promise of hard cash than anything else, though there are exceptions (notably Ellroy's haunted policemen in The Big Nowhere and The Black Dahlia). Now, as in the '40s when noir was at its peak, the economy is booming in an uprecedented way. Perhaps the consequences of money, its slovenly side, only interest readers when lots of money is to be had for the asking. The topics...
...Down!: they give you three movies' worth of plot in a fast 100 minutes or so. His sensuous, delirious new film, Live Flesh, has plenty. Victor is involved with two women, Clara and Elena (the sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular gun battle and a paraplegic policeman (Javier Bardem) who plays basketball in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona...
...might expect in a stadium shaped like a cherry blossom yet named, not memorably, the "Stadium for Opening and Closing Ceremonies." Helium doves fluttered prettily, Japan's Emperor and Empress clapped gamely for 40 minutes of parading athletes, and a large number of the contestants were dressed like secret policemen...