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Throughout his career, Heydar Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, KGB general and veteran of spectacular Kremlin intrigues in the waning years of the U.S.S.R. - was a consummate in-fighter who prided himself on total control of the state machine. Earlier this month, as the 80-year-old Aliyev lay in a...
Genser presented a more sinister explanation for the charge.
As the breakfast period ends, the “Mission: Impossible” theme suddenly rattles from a boombox and two teachers race across the cafeteria in tight black clothing and sinister sunglasses.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Scholastic; 870 pages), the sinister Potions teacher Severus Snape gives Harry a lesson in Occlumency, the art of hiding one's thoughts from magical prying. "Only Muggles talk of 'mind reading,'" Snape sneers. "The mind is not a book, to be...
The rumors at the 56th cannes Film Festival were so much more entertaining than the stuff on the Grand Palais screen, they deserve their own prizes. So here are our Kick-the-Cannes Awards. Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: The Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War...