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...best actress), and a Chinese spy in Eddie Fong's The Last Princess of Manchuria. In the latter, she played the real-life title character Kawashima Yoshiko, who spied for the Japanese during the occupation, and Mui was cold steel personified. She slapped men's faces, spat out her scorn at those who would use, abuse or condemn her. At the end, facing a death sentence, she remained defiant: a ghost asserting her haunting hauteur...
Libya expects to get sanctions relief and international acceptance as a result of the deal. But the potential American concessions are troubling to neoconservatives in the Administration who scorn deals with dictators. From negotiations with North Korea to an inspections pact with Iran, Bush has repeatedly sided with the moderate wing of the Republican foreign-policy establishment over the past few months. The Libya deal further suggests that Bush may be tacking to the center to protect himself against trouble in Iraq during an election year...
What happens to a peace deferred? More than 800 Israeli and 2,200 Palestinian deaths into the second intifada—deaths that scorn Bush’s Roadmap, like Clinton’s efforts at Oslo, Camp David and Taba—Langston Hughes would answer without equivocation. It explodes...
...Serbia's foreign interests lying not only in Washington and Brussels but also in Moscow, Beijing and with "our old ties" in the so-called nonaligned countries, a bloc co-founded in the 1960s by former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Like the Radicals, Kostunica has nothing but scorn for the country's leaders, whom he accuses of "destroying the institutions of state" and subverting the rule of law. Kostunica has ruled out a coalition with the Radicals in any future government and claims he would not share power with the late Djindjic's Democratic Party either. Analysts...
...Haven, though, is the genuine article. So save your scorn for the Yalies themselves—goodness knows, we deserve...