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...country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing the gifts of civilization?courts of law, hygiene, tar roads?bequeathed to them by their European overlords and crawling back into tribal ritual, sham spirituality and chaos. He did this for more than 30 years, and when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took place and overnight it became important to know something about countries like Iran and Pakistan, intellectuals in America and Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays...
...increasingly absurd, over-the-top version of himself. "The last thing we set out to do was make fun of small-town America," says Wernick. "The thing we actually set out to do was make fun of Hollywood." That would explain the kleptomaniac tendencies of one of Shatner's sham-movie co-stars. Says Wernick: "That was our little shout-out to Winona Ryder." We'd wager that she isn't laughing either...
...threat may be overblown, one concern is that possessing a nuclear-armed sub might make Pyongyang even less willing to freeze its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang scoffed at a U.S. suggestion last month that it follow Libya's example by abandoning its nukes, calling the American offer a "sham." And the North has canceled high-level talks with Seoul, accusing it of kidnapping the 468 North Korean defectors who arrived in the South last week via Vietnam. Another round of multilateral talks on the North's nuclear program is due to start in September, but the chances of success seem...
...even China seems to be acknowledging that it has to start to deal with Chen, whose new term of office lasts until 2008. The Chinese Foreign Ministry described his speech as "a sham," and in a statement released by the mainland's Taiwan Affairs Office earlier in the week, Beijing warned that if Taiwan's leaders took any steps toward independence, it would "crush their schemes firmly and thoroughly at any cost." But although it made them contingent on Chen's accepting Beijing's "one China" policy, the same statement also put forward seven points seemingly designed to put cross...
...which his distraught mother said she could see daylight. Thousands of people came to his open-casket funeral, the black magazine Jet ran photos of his ruined face, and by the time an all-white jury acquitted Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam in a sham trial, Till's death was a touchstone for black America, fueling support for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that same year. Whites were slower on the uptake, prompting a young singer named Bob Dylan to warn in 1963, "If you can't speak out against this kind of thing...