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Once a movie leaks, duplicating plants begin churning out discs by the thousand. Two and a half years ago, hard copies would hit the street about a week after theatrical releases. Today they're usually out in 48 hours. On Dec. 13, a TIME reporter bought Samurai from a stall along Taweewong Road in Phuket, Thailand. "We've had Last Samurai for three days already," said vendor Nook (not his real name). At his booth, just 50 yards from an official Warner Bros. store, Samurai was available with Thai, Chinese or Bahasa Indonesia subtitles. Business has improved, Nook says, since...
...Turkish Cypriots inched closer to an agreement to reunite the island when veteran leader Rauf Denktash, who's resolutely opposed reunification, handed his rival Mehmet Ali Talat, who favors a deal, the task of forming a new government after last month's elections. Talat's priority is to restart stalled peace talks with the south before May 1, when Greek Cypriots are due to join the European Union. The goodwill generated since Denktash opened up the border last April will be tested if Talat succeeds in bringing both sides to the negotiating table next month. "The Turks will have...
...Businessmen like Rao are faced with immense new opportunities?and familiar obstacles?as India's economy enters a critical period in which it could achieve a China-like breakout or stall once again. India's gross domestic product (GDP) soared 8.4% on an annualized basis in the July-to-September quarter?its best performance in nearly a decade. In the fiscal year ending in March, growth is expected to surpass 7%, making India the second-fastest-growing economy in Asia (after China). The Bombay stock exchange shot up by 73% in 2003, and tens of thousands of Indians joined...
...weapons just entering production and buying lethal ones instead. Rumsfeld also earmarked additional billions to build a national missile shield. Transformation was meant to prepare the U.S. fighting machine for enemies that looked less like nations and more like groups of stateless terrorists. The military first tried to stall, then fight and then outlast him. Rumsfeld reacted by dismissing the generals who didn't like his ideas and finding some who did. Resistance inside the Army was so deep that Rumsfeld brought back a retired four star, Pete Schoomaker, to be his Army chief of staff rather than promote...
...change Cuban tourism officials believe will bring more than 1 million U.S. turistas to the island each year. This confidence is based on the burgeoning bipartisan support Congress has shown this fall for lifting altogether the ban on travel to Cuba. The Bush Administration has been able to stall that effort for now--and as of Jan. 1 will outlaw exchange tours like John's in order to tighten the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. The U.S. clampdown could initially cost Cuba 50,000 American visitors each year, the number now traveling there legally on visas like John...