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...show that the candidate hadn't been kidding. In response to the February arrest of alleged spy Robert Hanssen, Bush ordered nearly 50 Russians out of the U.S., setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town, ready to take a more hawkish, assertive posture on foreign policy. What...
...woman's name was a frosty interlude amid the pleasantries of George W. Bush's meeting with China's Vice Premier Qian Qichen. The woman is Gao Zhan, 40, a sociologist at American University in Washington who has been held by Chinese authorities since mid-February. Bush bluntly told Qian of his "extreme concern" about Gao. He was echoing similar statements by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who called the case "particularly outrageous...
Indio is one of the premier watering places of an adventurous, uprooted, self-indulgent subculture that roams America's highways in $1 million buses. That's correct: $1,000,000 (give or take a few thousand...
...Sunday's parties are split into two categories. Screening parties and post-award show bashes. Not everyone can attend the actual awards, and unless you are nominated there is little point. So the smart folks go to one of the premier viewing parties. One of the hottest events is a charity party thrown by Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation and Norby Walters. This foundation benefits film preservation, a celebrated cause in L.A. The event also benefits film actor preservation, since many of the attendees are former Oscar winners who have no place at the Academy Awards unless...
Among the prizes up for grabs are four behind-the-plate tickets to a Boston Red Sox game, a weekend stay at the Kennedy Suite (the preserved senior dorm room of John F. Kennedy '40 in Winthrop House), and two tickets to the Lincoln Center premier of HBO's "Sex in the City...