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...ENDED. A 100-day hunger strike by JIYUL, 48, Buddhist nun and environmentalist who has battled Korean authorities for four years over a high-speed train tunnel through the ecologically sensitive Mount Cheonseong area; after the government agreed to a three-month suspension of construction and a new environmental impact assessment; in Seoul. Severely weakened by the fast, her fourth since Feb. 2003, Jiyul will enter a hospital to recover...
First, on January 20, Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the Third Circuit, responding to a request from government lawyers, ruled that the court’s decision to strike down the Solomon Amendment would not go into effect “until further order.” The government now has until the end of this month to ask the Supreme Court to review the case, according to Sharon E. Frase, an attorney who is representing FAIR in the Third Circuit case...
...differ. Topping the list: Iran. Britain, France and Germany are playing good cop, trying to persuade the Islamic state not to use its nascent civilian nuclear program as a cover for bombmaking; Washington is playing bad cop, making not-so-veiled threats that the U.S. or Israel could strike. So far, there's been little sign that good cop and bad cop are working together. Rice stressed that, while the mullahs' human-rights record is "abysmal", military force is not in the offing, for now. But she didn't offer the explicit support for the negotiations the Europeans want. Next...
...would be lovely to see a real Indian musical, or even a plausible fake, strike sparks with a mass audience. Heart and art can make a beguiling pair. Those are mostly missing in this strained hybrid, which is less Bollywood than Follywood. --By Richard Corliss
...Gemma is as dull, pretentious and hopelessly middle class as her literary doppelganger, though, as a modern woman, she makes a living as an illustrator living in London. Rebounding off of a failed relationship with someone even more narcissistic than herself, she marries an older divorcee named Charlie Bovery. (Strike two!) As the routine of married life begins gnawing at her, she fantasizes about a quaint life in rural France. (Uh oh.) After hounding her husband to move she soon becomes bored and claustrophobic. So she takes a lover, a young law student, and the rest is literature...