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...Until the morning last November when Philippine troops backed by armored vehicles sealed off the recitation center and orphanage under cover of predawn darkness. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. an antiterrorist task force burst into the school to seize a shaken, protesting Selamah. (According to military sources, they also found passports of at least five different nationalities, at least one firearm and documents on explosives and bombmaking.) Three hours later in Manila, two apartments were raided, yielding firearms, explosives, time fuses, manuals on explosives, sketches of targets and two other non-Filipinos: Masrie, a 32-year-old Palestinian born...
Gailhaguet denies those claims and suggests that pressure was brought upon Le Gougne from "left and right"--implying that it came from Canadian skating officials as well. Whatever the truth turns out to be, international figure skating and the Olympic movement itself have been shaken as never before. Even before Tonya Harding went gunning for Nancy Kerrigan, figure skating had an image problem. Not on the ice. On the ice it's all double Axels and triple Salchows and Kristi Yamaguchi twirling straight onto the Wheaties box. Say all you want about the smiley dudes on their snowboards, but when...
Here's why: Although Bush won't see much of it, he is visiting a Japan that is being shaken to its roots by a decade of economic decline. The excess and hubris that once bought Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach golf courses have been replaced by a growing malaise. Joblessness, bankruptcy, crime and suicide, once rare in Japan, are now just average headlines. In the recession-ravaged hot-springs resort town of Yufuin, citizens are hedging their futures by resorting to barter trade. Taxi rides, sake and even hospital bills can be paid for with a local scrip called...
...Gailhaguet denies those claims and suggests that pressure was brought upon Le Gougne from "left and right"--implying that it came from Canadian skating officials as well. Whatever the truth turns out to be, international figure skating and the Olympic movement itself have been shaken as never before. Even before Tonya Harding went gunning for Nancy Kerrigan, figure skating had an image problem. Not on the ice. On the ice it's all double Axels and triple Salchows and Kristi Yamaguchi twirling straight onto the Wheaties box. Say all you want about the smiley dudes on their snowboards, but when...
...film is bogged down in bad acting and action movie clichés. Most unforgivable of all, Arnold becomes human. Note to the director: have done with the tortured heroes, the conflicted warriors. We like our Arnold resolute, unyielding and triumphant. What we get instead is an Arnold shaken, not stirred. To see our invincible Terminator brought low by a terrorist is to receive a cinematic blow to the groin. It’s painful, it’s excruciating and it turns us completely off. Rocky may be beaten and Jackie humbled, but Arnold is superman...