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...Kunming during the tumultuous early years of the People's Republic of China, and his magnificent teak palace was torn down by rabid Red Guards. The Dai were a feisty people, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and it was felt they did not need a monarch around to stir up ethnic pride or notions of independence. (These days, the septuagenarian King works at the Yunnan Research Institute for Nationalities, and the Chinese government prizes the bright costumes and quaint villages of the Dai as a lucrative tourism draw...
...shines as a mobster in a who's-controlling-whom relationship with Cohen. But the writing is flat--like the clumsily topical terrorism subplot--and co-star Rob Morrow, as an ex-drug dealer trying to avoid the thug life, makes the least convincing felon since Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy. Give Street Time probation, but not yet approbation. --By James Poniewozik
...controversy surrounding the upcoming commencement speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02 on jihad began to stir, many on campus were shocked that anyone would protest the topic. Those of us concerned that Yasin’s speech contained no explicit condemnation of violent jihad, and that Yasin himself has supported an organization that helps fund Hamas, have been told that we are anti-Islam for protesting. Yet I fail to see why it is racist to demand acknowledgement and condemnation of violent jihad after many of us lost family and friends due to a jihad against America...
Councillor's Protest Fails To Stir Drive on Parking
...that a senior U.S. diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca, was in New Delhi trying to arm-twist some peace. After the attack on Parliament in December, India went to war footing, demanding that Pakistan crack down on its anti-India terrorists?almost all of them working to stir trouble in Kashmir?and demanded the extradition to India of 20 named terrorist suspects. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ordered some militants arrested?many of whom have been subsequently released?and refused to extradite any of those on India's list. That's why the troops are still eyeballing each other...