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...while huddled round a fire. But there are more sinister details as well. A money lender fondles Apostolis to determine what degree he will overcharge him. A Turkish merchant, terrified of Apostolis’s physical power, nevertheless professes to be unable to pay back his debt. Ottoman soldiers storm into town and viciously arrest a man for tax evasion...
...Bush's father had the same people around him during Desert Storm, but he bore the solitary burden of a President at war. On Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, after the President delivered his homily, Bush senior reached over to squeeze his son's hand, his eyes not looking at him but raised toward the heavens. Like few others, he knows that the President...
Those are Dr. Dre's shouted instructions, heard through a storm of bass and beats so deafening that a full-size couch is actually lurching off the ground, like a great green whale preparing to breach. Realizing that he can't be heard, Dre touches a button on the mixing board and the music stops. "I need louder cellos," he says in a normal voice to the recording-studio technician. Then quietly to himself, "Cellos make everything sound evil...
...ended by the economic shock of Tuesday?s horror - was partly built on a worldwide perception of the U.S. as a "safe haven." Its stocks were perennially headed up. Its consumers perennially spent. And most fundamentally, its Treasury bonds and dollars were rocks as stable as its government, storm-proof shelters that were sought out by foreign investors - the so-called "flight to quality" - in times of uncertainty...
...Financially, they won the battle. Needing You..., with Cheng as a harried office worker and Lau as the playboy she reforms, was the biggest Hong Kong grosser since The Storm Riders in 1998. Help!!! (it was a big summer for punctuation), a hospital drama, mixed cynicism and sentiment in crowd-pleasing proportions. For New Year they offered the gorgeous, frantic, virtually all-girl Wu Yen, with Cheng as a warrior, Cecilia Cheung as an elfin enchantress and Anita Mui as both a King and his grandfather; it was the season's second-highest grossing film. Then came Love...