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...Broadway debut in the legendary New York premiere of Jean Genet's provocative The Blacks (1962). Gunn won Obie awards for his work in Titus Andronicus (1967) and The First Breeze of Summer (1975), and was admired for his Othello. Movie credits included The Great White Hope (1970) and Shaft...
...named Dick (Jamie Bell) to the love of his life--a handgun. Dick, who abhors violence but is fascinated by the workings and personalities of firearms, has gathered a few like-minded loners into a group of "pacifists with guns." This heavy-artillery youth club, situated in a mine shaft, has all manner of arcane rules, including that the weapons must never be fired outside the club. That'll change...
...appear to show the North Koreans hard at work on another suspicious tunnel, this time in the northeastern Kilju county. Heavy equipment has been spotted hauling material into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence?a possible sign that the North is plugging the shaft to create an underground chamber for an imminent nuclear test...
...Koreans hard at work on another big dig. Traffic around the mouth of a tunnel has intensified recently, and heavy equipment has been spotted hauling materials, possibly including cement, into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test?" asks the official. "Yes. Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's track record of bluff and brinksmanship, "it is very possible they are pretending it is a test...
...That was not, of course, Rice's only message. Wherever she went, she reiterated the Bush Administration's view that freedom and democracy are the essential underpinnings to sustained peace and prosperity. No question where that shaft was aimed. "We believe," she said, "that when China's leaders confront the need to align their political institutions with their increased economic openness, they will look around them in Asia and they will see that freedom works." Perhaps predictably, Xinhua, China's state-owned news agency, mentioned only Rice's complimentary remarks on China and did not refer to her comments...