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...Hong Kong cinema is like a hot girl’s underwear drawer. I know that they both contain exotic and thrilling treasures, but nervous trepidation prevents me from exploring them. For every time I’ve given up on a panty raid out of fear that I’d only find granny-pants or that I’d get caught in flagrante dilecto, there’s a Hong Kong action film that I decided not to see because I was afraid that it would be full of plot conventions and pop-culture references that would...
...waging regime, is but one angle of the campaign. On Friday, the UN special representative on Sudan and the African Union (AU) released a joint statement condemning the recent attack on a small village in southern Darfur where 305 militiamen descended upon the civilians in a predawn raid. We can do more...
...last February. In the past year U.S. Customs agents have reported a marked increase in narcotics smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican border. Last month two major busts yielded $40 million worth of cocaine near San Ysidro, Calif. Said a U.S. embassy spokesman in Mexico City of last week's raid: "This was an operation carried out by the Mexican government. We think they were unaware of the magnitude of the problem...
Today save your pity for other hapless souls. Threshie and Anderson have transformed the Register into an aggressive, smartly designed daily that boasts what may be the best full-color reproduction in the country. The Register has also beaten back a determined raid into its area by the wealthier Times, which has vied to boost the readership of its Orange County edition (weekday circ. 164,000) with little success. The Register, by contrast, has upped its circulation since 1979 by 36%, to 274,000. The competition grew keener last spring, when the Register won a Pulitzer for its photographic coverage...
...enough to understand that she probably couldn't stop conflicts but that she could help their victims. On one memorable occasion in Kabul, in early 2002, she organized a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy, arriving with a father and his daughter, the only survivors of a recent U.S. bombing raid that had left 18 family members dead...