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...This treasure comes in two parts: life stories and filmographies of several hundred workers in the many Indian film industries, and plot synopses of a thousand or so movies. I toted this tome to Indian video stores, and even my knowledgeable guides at Naghma House found the book worth consulting. So did the staff at Internet Movie Database: some of their plot descriptions are lifted verbatim from ?EOIC.? All praise to the editors, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, and pleas for a third edition; the second one is five years...
...court, sometimes murderously. Economist Chris Baker, who helped conduct a survey for the World Bank, said most Thai businessmen don't trust the legal system, because they believe courts and cops can be bought. "Violence was quite a big option," says Baker. The country has an estimated thousand or so professional gunmen who earn their livings mainly by "solving" business conflicts. Few are ever caught. Shortly after Nopdol's arrest, Thaksin told the press that fingerprint evidence showed that more than one person was involved in Hangthong's death. Instructing police to investigate the original team that had concluded that...
Once a movie leaks, duplicating plants begin churning out discs by the thousand. Two and a half years ago, hard copies would hit the street about a week after theatrical releases. Today they're usually out in 48 hours. On Dec. 13, a TIME reporter bought Samurai from a stall along Taweewong Road in Phuket, Thailand. "We've had Last Samurai for three days already," said vendor Nook (not his real name). At his booth, just 50 yards from an official Warner Bros. store, Samurai was available with Thai, Chinese or Bahasa Indonesia subtitles. Business has improved, Nook says, since...
...also of his genuine desire to apply his science to public health. Even more worrying was China's decision in August lifting the ban on sales of civets. By September, the markets were again crawling with them. One dealer in Shenzhen, when asked if he could procure a thousand civet cats, replied, "That's hard." He paused, then added, "It may take me a day to get that many...
...entering the U.S., as Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge did on Dec. 29. After all, the country making the rules still does not inspect the vast majority of its cargo or all of its checked baggage at its airports, standard procedures in some countries. And America's several thousand armed air marshals have figured in 600 reports of misconduct from October 2001 to July 2003. Last year a marshal was fired for drawing his gun on a man who had stolen his airport parking spot...