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...trouble keeping his story moving. He is not helped by Philip Kwok's jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look cheaper than it is, like expensive makeup poorly applied...
...story had a posthumous twist. Through Niazi's good intelligence work, authorities were able to find a fifth al-Qaeda man, also an Uzbek, who is now in U.S. custody. But the scene of the roadside shoot-out resembles a makeshift shrine to fallen al-Qaeda fighters. Graffiti glorifying Osama bin Laden have been painted on the rocks, and pilgrims flock to the spot in busloads. Some say they can smell the fragrance of martyrs' paradise wafting from the bloodstains in the dirt. And Niazi's father considers his son a traitor to Muslims. He refused to say the customary...
Nagasaki's best experiences are its surprises-like the kind stranger on a streetcar who invites me to dinner ("I have a daughter who studied English in Canada. Let me make you sushi!"). On my last Saturday in town, I am on my way to visit the Suwa Shinto Shrine when I hear the music of a parade. Two large drums, carried on the backs of robed festival participants, keep rhythm for a 20-person contingent. Men in suits and white-faced women in bright kimonos lead the procession down stone sidewalks, beginning the 168-step ascent to the three...
...happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water from the Ganges and rubbed her with cooking fat. Then chanting mantras to the "mother" goddess Kali, he sawed off Manju's hands, breasts and left foot...
...votes, according to officials. Troops were flown in but failed to make an impression on the level of unrest in the remote area. The poll has become so chaotic that the country's newspapers called for fresh voting, but the Election Commission has continued with the count. JAPAN War Shrine South Koreans angry over the visit by Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's Prime Minister, to a Tokyo shrine containing the remains of war criminals have joined legal proceedings against him. About 800 people, mostly South Koreans, signed on to one of three law-suits that are pending against Koizumi. The suits...