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...Vietnam's most popular celebrities, Duong, 45, says he was drawn to the role of Commander Nguyen Huu An, who weathers relentless American firepower and is portrayed, if briefly, as an honorable soldier. Duong has protested that he had no control over the director's final cut and that he doesn't plan to do any more war movies, but that may not be enough to prevent his blacklisting. Vietnam's Ministry of Culture?kind of a Supreme Court of censorship?is now reviewing the film and will decide Duong's fate soon. Meanwhile, he can be seen...
...alert--the most rigorous inspection regimen and one that, in the first days after the attacks, caused 25-mile, 16-hour-long backups at the Ambassador Bridge. Those delays shut down auto assembly lines from Flint, Mich., to Hermosillo, Mexico--and put Anderson and his 45 inspectors under relentless pressure to keep the commerce flowing while letting neither terrorists nor weapons of mass destruction across the border...
That doesn't mean the inspectors can let down their guard. Though they still work 12-to-16-hour shifts in relentless heat and bitter cold, they have logged fewer sick days than before the national crisis. "They're tired and they've made a lot of personal sacrifices, but they continue to demonstrate the same dedication today as they did on the 11th of September," says Anderson. Anderson's own closet-size cubicle inside the small brick customs office is a spartan place purged of distractions except for photos of Linda and their daughter, 23, and son, 19. Taped...
...carry that fear factor," he says. He wore out the 19-year-old Roddick with his pinpoint ground strokes and indefatigable desire. He then dismantled Pete Sampras in the final. He is neither especially big nor strong at 5 ft. 11 in. and 160 lbs. But he is especially relentless. "He doesn't have the big game to blow guys away," says his coach, Jason Stoltenberg. "He's got to use his mind strength and his legs and his ground strokes...
...open day and night in case snitches want to rat out their neighbors or colleagues. According to the academic's analysis, the hotline can be reached by dialing local area codes and then 82. The book also suggests that the ruling party has a previously unknown outlet for its relentless propaganda: cable television. Most important, the book provides a comprehensive listing of government ministries, intelligence bureaus, and some military offices?precisely the kind of information outside intelligence agencies have long been denied. There are 18 pages in the Pyongyang section devoted to government offices?a sign that power is highly...