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...Then, yesterday in Beijing, China took the occasion of a visit from the U.S. State Department's new point man for Sino-U.S. relations - just confirmed Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte - to reveal that its defense spending in the forthcoming year would rise by nearly 18%, to almost $45 billion, the biggest increase in five years, and a larger increase than U.S. defense officials had anticipated. The U.S. believes that a straightforward accounting of total military expenditures - including new equipment purchases, which Beijing does not include in its report of annual defense spending - would amount to $150 billion...
...comes from the first short story, which centers on Lucien, a widowed New Yorker, and Nathaniel, the nephew of his late wife, Charlie. Though the two live in the same city, they rarely see one another and their lives unfold separately. Eisenberg structures her story by letting each character reveal his inner monologue while linking them through memories of Charlie, which creates a poignant portrait of each character as well as a moving rendering of their mutual connection to Charlie. Though “Twilight of the Superheroes” is set after Sept...
...films—he is enthusiastic about what he does, and happy to let anyone with the slightest inclination know the thoughts in his head. According to Graymsith, Gyllenhaal, though riveted by the script, hesitated to take the role, afraid to open a Pandora’s Box and reveal the psyche of a man so in vested in a killer. However, after meeting with Graysmith to better understand the character he might portray, Gyllenhaal accepted the role. “Jake reached in,” notes Graysmith, recalling his many one-on-one sessions with the star. Besides...
...with Pakistan's inability - or reluctance - to crack down on Islamic militants. Cheney's talk with Musharraf, while not characterized by the White House as a "tough message," follows a similar visit last month by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Since then murmurs in the U.S. intelligence community reveal mounting concerns that al-Qaeda is reestablishing itself in Waziristan. Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, accompanied Cheney on this particular leg of his tour, which may indicate that much of the private conversation revolved around evidence of further al-Qaeda activity in the region...
...Ever the showman, (Why does this remind me of the impresario in another movie, "King Kong", whose hubris blinds him to the dangers of an angry and very large ape?) Cameron is holding a New York press conference on Monday at which he will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. News about the film, which will be shown soon on Discovery Channel, Britain's Channel 4, Canada's Vision, and Israel's Channel 8, has been a hot blog topic in the Middle East (check out a personal favorite: Israelity Bites...