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Singaporeans will find it provocative for other reasons. One of the book's most fascinating denizens is "the Chairman," the fictional leader of the Singaporean government during the 1980s, who sometimes changes form to become Mao, father of Chinese communism. While the author never mentions him directly, "the Chairman" appears...
Those kinds of objections explain why the war party is looking for a silver-bullet strategy-a lucky first strike on Saddam, say, or a manufactured coup by Iraqi dissidents-that would forestall an old-fashioned deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks. But almost no one in...
But Hollywood sees an unlikely savior on the horizon: Vin Diesel. Tough, stoic and tawny, with muscles like Adonis and a voice so deep only Bea Arthur can imitate it, Diesel became a star last summer in the surprise street-racing hit The Fast and the Furious. At the moment...
Not all the retro-rock productions are so crass. A quieter new musical hit in London is an engaging little show called Taboo, which recaps the rise and drug-addled fall of Boy George, the androgynous former lead singer of the band Culture Club. The surprise is that, aside from...
Recent visitors to the al-Qaeda-affiliated website www.alneda.com were in for a surprise. A link that once guided the terror group's supporters to "martyrdom: your path to immortality" now led to "Lola: I do things your wife won't." Mystery hackers had sabotaged the site, which U.S. and...