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...part, Columbia's intention is for Big Shot to appeal to even more than that massive audience, hoping that a Chinese film?even without fancy costumes or kung-fu kicks?will succeed overseas. "Modern China may have Starbucks, but it's still a fascinating place," says Sutherland, who plays a Western director coming to grips with the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Filmed in Beijing's august Forbidden City, Big Shot critiques the consumerism sweeping the capital today. "Xiaogang captures the hilarious and tragic contradictions of Chinese society," says his star, "like no one else...
...Only an official overreaction to non-violent protest (a Birmingham, an Amritsar) can work in the demonstrators' favor. Has nonviolence become an archaic irrelevance? Maybe. But it does have a good historical record of succeeding where violence fails, where violence merely begets further violence, in the same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators...
...that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization battered by recent failures, including the 11th-hour discovery of 4,000 pages of documents that had not been handed over to lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Just last week former FBI agent Robert...
...been flattering, for a while, to be with a man who can so thoroughly lose himself in a woman. On the other hand, there's so little you in you that I suspect you could lose yourself in any woman." Never mind whether Wallingford's hand transplant will succeed. Can he become a better person...
...flew over clouds in total radio silence. No one talked. I admit I had some doubt. I wondered what happened to the first group. Would they succeed or would the Americans come after them? A Morse code signal came in from the first wave: "Ready to attack." A few seconds later, we heard, "Tora, tora, tora." Surprise attack. But I could see 200 to 300 bombs exploding on the ground. I immediately thought the first group must be under counterattack from the Americans...