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...Puffing on a magnificent Cohiba cigar at his home beside the Tigris River, Jumaluddin tries to put the rocky start of local democracy in perspective. "Iraqis don't know what democracy is," he says. He tries to explain the challenge by relating a joke that is making the rounds in Baghdad: "An old woman asks her son, 'What is this democracy I hear so much about? What does it mean?' Her son tells her that every four years there will be a new President. 'Isn't that wonderful, Mother?' The old woman thinks about it for a moment, and then...
...Narrative has never been Zhang's strong suit, and Daggers' plot meanders like the Yellow River. Kaneshiro and Lau play police officers for a corrupt imperial government and are charged with eliminating a mysterious rebel group called the House of Flying Daggers, which derives its name from its members' knuckleball-like throwing knives, which dance and weave toward their targets. The pair concoct an elaborate plan to use a blind bar girl (Zhang Ziyi) as rebel bait, and Zhang, a trained ballerina, shows off her skills in a dance sequence that turns into an elegant, then vicious, duel...
Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
...GYMNASTICS Melanie Banville, Cornwall, Ont. Grant Golding, Calgary Ken Ikeda, Abbotsford, B.C. Alexander Jeltkov, Montreal David Kikuchi, Fall River, N.S. Gael Mackie, Langley, B.C. Am?lie Plante, Joliette, Que. Heather Purnell, Metcalfe, Ont. Kate Richardson, Coquitlam, B.C. Kyle Shewfelt, Calgary Kylie Stone, Calgary Adam Wong, Calgary...
...gruff “Reporting for duty!”—Kerry emphasized what has been a defining theme of the convention and his campaign thus far. Alluding repeatedly to his now-familiar personal narrative that included service on a boat in the Mekong River during the Vietnam War—and his subsequent opposition to the unjust war that it contributed to—Kerry portrayed himself as a principled war hero wary of the dangers of armed conflict...