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...stiff-upper-lip Brit, unflappable in the face of crisis, but there's not a hint of condescension or satire. Yes, the young commander of the company, the competent, hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened - supposing we were knocked...
...honcho from California? The Internet couple from England? The hot German babe in the bikini? Or the guy from New Zealand who changed his family name to Rocket? Physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes that mankind must colonize space, sent word that he wants in--which would allow him to slip the earthly confines of his wheelchair. One of the royals (Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice?) is a possible passenger, not to mention publicity bonanza. Pilot Alex Tai, Galactic's chief of operations, claims that the market--even at $200,000 a shot--is huge, with 8 million millionaires worldwide, a couple...
...American embassy in Tel Aviv, killing three. A second bomber's device failed to go off. Perhaps more alarmingly, it turns out one of the bombers had worked at Heathrow Airport as a security guard. Only the British authorities can tell us whether he had the capacity to slip a bomb on an American airplane - or help us stop the next British suicide bomber...
...know carnival that it is the same ritual every year, just two weeks of happy, drunk people cavorting around the streets half naked. And like every year, my innate Scottish reserve stops me from jumping into the fray with the same abandon as everyone else. Yet as I slip my cocktail back in my belt and watch grown adults spray each other with foam, I know that if I really want to enjoy myself, I must join the ranks of those happy drunk people cavorting around half naked. "Carnival is interaction," agrees my friend Tatiana Guimaraes. "You have...
...financial crisis prompted her to become involved in national politics. In 1998, she ran and was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Grand National Party. Park said that the this December’s election will “determine whether Korea will slip back into oblivion or take a huge step into prosperity in the future.” Harvard professor David McCann, who teaches Foreign Cultures 80, “Korea at 2100,” wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Park “has been working to revitalize the Korean...