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...trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People say to me, You're a serious actress playing an action movie," she says. "But this is the hardest thing I've ever done...
...trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People say to me, You're a serious actress playing an action movie," she says. "But this is the hardest thing I've ever done...
...have been assurances that the country's elite antiterrorism squad will be dispatched to the scene and a special task force established to deal with the hijacking. However Putin has remained off camera, and his precise whereabouts are unknown to the journalists who are covering him on vacation in Siberia. His Kremlin handlers are left to assure the public that even in the Muslim holy city of Medina, their elite antiterrorist squad will have access to the plane. But that claim sounds less than probable. Landing in Medina was a very smart move...
...with those of the largest OPEC producers. The problem is getting the oil out of the ground and to market. Years of Soviet mismanagement and underinvestment have taken their toll. Russia's oil fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...
BEIJING--Desperate to avoid a forced return to his old perch atop the Lampoon castle, the humor magazine's sacred ibis fled across the Pacific last week, flying through Siberia and North Korea before finally nesting in the snowy Chinese capital...