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...DIED. VAN TIEN DUNG, 84, general who led North Vietnamese forces in the 55-day-long 1975 Ho Chi Minh Campaign to capture the city of Saigon from U.S.-backed South Vietnamese troops; in Hanoi. Born a peasant, he rose through Communist Party ranks to become commander-in-chief of the army. Dung penned his controversial memoirs Our Great Spring Victory in 1976. DIED. ROSETTA LENOIRE, 90, affable grandma on the American TV sitcom Family Matters and goddaughter of dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she started in showbiz; in Teaneck, New Jersey. LeNoire, who founded the Amas Repertory...
...River and a tangled network of klongs, or canals. Even though many of the old waterways have been paved over, most of the city's major attractions can be reached by boat. The Chao Phraya Express serves the river like a public bus, stopping at selected piers, like Tha Tien (for the Grand Palace,Wat Po and Wat Arun). The ubiquitous water taxis, called longtails, ply the places in between...
...That all seems a long time ago now," says General Lue Ye-tien, Tuan's former right-hand man. Tuan died in 1980 but Lue still cuts a sprightly figure at 85 and relishes the peace of his twilight years after a lifetime of fighting. A towering chap with a ramrod back and a vaguely wintery air, he retains a formidable presence even as he potters about the twisting rows of tea bushes swaddling the slopes below his Chinese-style villa. Further down, the mountain falls away in an undulating patchwork of tea, tobacco, fruit trees and stands of thick...
...Tsai holds the patent on slow opening scenes, and this one doesn't disappoint. We see a man (Miao Tien) at a kitchen table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before...
Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which...