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...Salem saga is just one of the dramatic stories playing out in the press and on websites. Also in the news is Chota Shakeel, Bombay's current boss of bosses, whom the local police claim they have on 71 tapes of bugged calls. Among Shakeel's alleged phone buddies are actors, directors and producers. The tapes still must have their authenticity established, yet they add credence to the popular theory that in India, which makes more films per year than any other nation, the Mob controls most of the movie business...
...Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
Your article "They Had A Plan," on the efforts by the Clinton and Bush administrations to take the offensive against al-Qaeda [Special Report, Aug. 12], was a gripping saga that underlines a sad history of misguided political maneuvering and ineptness in preventing attacks. The failure to respond quickly allowed the terrorists to carry out acts that still reverberate in the lives of innocent citizens not only in the U.S. but all over the world. Alas! We are waiting for the day when concern for human suffering transcends political intrigue. JAYANTA GUHA Chicoutimi...
...summertime saga that gripped the nation, for its poignancy and the troubling mystery it posed. Just as the sun rose over the languid beaches in the crook of the elbow-shaped playland of Cape Cod, early-morning strollers were astonished by surprise visitors. Lying helplessly in shallows near the town of Dennis, Mass., like so many black boulders, were 55 grounded pilot whales. Although nine of the whales soon died or had to be put down (with lethal injections of sodium pentothal), rescuers managed to push 46 others...
Corporate Raiders In the latest twist in the Vivendi saga, French investigators launched a probe nto the indebted media company's accounts, seizing documents from its headquarters...