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Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...
...centuries are hardly inspired, and their lists are hardly fair - the greats of the past 100 years can't be measured by 2000's ruler. ESPN's 50 greatest athletes of the century are all right. They wouldn't last six seconds in NFL 2K for Sega Dreamcast...
...Laden channels money through a variety of legitimate charities and businesses, and is not averse to exploiting family ties: He is reported to have married off one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, making his relationship with Afghanistan's ruler that of a father-in-law. Even though groupings such as Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - with which the group arrested in the U.S. is believed to be aligned - long predated Bin Laden and have an entirely independent leadership structure, they are reported to have received financial and training assistance from the Saudi financier's Al Qaeda group...
...terrorist states, but that doesn't mean Washington can afford to put it there. The U.S. has information pointing to an organization backed by the Pakistani military as the culprits in the recent hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, the New York Times reported Tuesday. But Pakistan's military ruler, General Parvez Musharraf, has rebuffed a U.S. request to ban the Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, the organization allegedly responsible for the attack. Nonetheless, by publicly discussing Pakistan's involvement in terrorism, the U.S. is turning up the heat...
...military hullabaloo around them. The biggest problem is that Li Xuejian, for better or worse, gives a truly confused portrait of the emperor, alternating between unabashed cruelty and childish buffoonery. His emperor is conflicted and multifaceted, for sure --but lacking the visible development from ambitious commoner to dangerously monomaniacal ruler, he also lacks the necessary pathos to be anything more than a caricature. Zhang Fengyi fares better as the sympathetic Jing Ke, giving a much-needed boost of feeling to the last third of this more than two and a half hour saga. Indeed, as a seasoned killer who makes...