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When Berry comes out of the water, her teeth are chattering. The locals say April was never this frigid, this windy--"Nunca," they insist, never--until the week she had to pretend the icy Atlantic was the bath-warm Gulf of Mexico and shoot Scene 102, her big entrance as Jinx, the mysterious assassin in the new Bond film Die Another...
...find yourself looking across Harvard Stadium at a screaming mass of Dark Blue and feeling somewhat inferior, take heart in the fact that we are—or for at least one weekend can pretend we are—almost on a par with the Elis...
...does Aa Gym pretend that he doesn't already wield serious clout. "I could push 100,000 people from the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta (where he preaches once a month) to the U.S. embassy. It would take 10 minutes to walk, and it would be very difficult for the police to stop them. With God's will I could use that power. But I won't. My program is for Indonesians to control themselves, to not be emotional. If we are emotional we have problems...
...Korea. In their current struggle to escape their rhetorical straightjacket, they betray their intent to frighten the public into a war with Iraq that they realize may not be necessary. Although the North Korean threat differs from Iraq in the details, it is certainly of comparable magnitude. Bush cannot pretend that a preemptive strike is necessary in one case of while admitting the possibility of patient and deliberate diplomacy in the other...
...economy terms, to stop expecting the government to take care of them." Veltchev has the cour-age of his convictions, but some socialist-era habits die hard. He would never, he says, implement a policy just to court popular approval, but he concedes that "it would be wrong to pretend that any politician could survive with-out resorting to minor populist measures at times." How would he determine when such a measure was in order? That, says this otherwise staunch proponent of capitalist individualism, would be a matter for cabinet-level collective decision making. Q&A: Bulgarians need to change...