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...that we Americans had better be careful or we might make "them" more angry than they already are, and then we'll be in real trouble. There is a grain of truth to it, but I am tired of it. What about my anger? What about my fury? Five thousand Americans were slaughtered without provocation. American foreign policy is not perfect, but it did not cause this hideous display of evil. MICHELLE JACKSON Sacramento, Calif...
...scintillates. Gone is the stone-faced hero of a thousand Hong Kong films, the bland non-presence of Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon. Here for the very first time is an actor who delivers his lines with fluent, if slightly accented English, and injects the right amount of emotion into those lines. In an interview four years ago, Li lamented his typecasting as a perpetual fighter, explaining, “No one will pay to watch Jet Li act.” After this film, that state of affairs seems likely to change. He?...
When not in use, Marah’s motorcycle rests undisturbed in the Quincy courtyard. She does not worry about theft because it has an ignition and it’s not a Harley, which typically goes for fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. “My Suzuki just doesn’t have the same prestige in the bike world. Harleys are special. They have a specific attitude,” she says...
...company launched a redesigned Explorer in January. The new machine exceeds safety requirements, and critics of the old Explorer, including Consumer Reports, hailed the new design as safe and efficient. But, like several other new vehicles over the last two years, the Explorer had initial quality problems and several thousand were recalled. The Explorer was the latest on a list that included the award-winning Ford Focus, the popular new Ford Escape, a small SUV, and most important, the Ford Thunderbird, a much-acclaimed new design that was due in showrooms earlier this year but still has not arrived...
...sections have crumbled since its completion in 1900, a sharp contrast to most roads in the area. Below us are traces of lower trails, narrow and treacherous paths used by workmen who needed to be closer to the river. Short, granite pillars line the path, grooved by a thousand trackers' ropes...