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...before, Guterres himself was strutting around the hallway, clad head-to-toe in denim, with his long mane of hair trailing behind, accompanied by the scent of bountifully applied cologne. (At the judges' discretion, none of the defendants in any of the trials have been incarcerated.) He ducked into the trial of General Adam Damiri, who oversaw the military command for East Timor in 1999 and is the highest ranking military official on trial. When Damiri's session ended, Guterres hurried to greet the general with a handshake and a hug, and the two men walked out together, smiling...
Some people hate Adrian Tomine's work. All they see are cute girls and angsty-guys in short, enigmatic portraits of the West Coast's slowly-aging Generation X. But they don't get it. Eleven years ago Tomine (pronounced TOE-mean-ay) began self-publishing his comic, "Optic Nerve" when he was just sixteen, stunning the comixcenti with his mature style. It was soon picked up by the classy Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly, and the company has just collected the last four issues into a gorgeous hardcover, "Summer Blonde" (132 pp.; $24.95). The dust jacket, with...
...when a child in whom all hopes are vested suddenly finds himself. Nations, too, can find affirmation in the successes of favorite sons. This week it was Asia's turn. After years of frustration and failure, unheralded national teams from Japan and South Korea broke through, not only going toe-to-toe against some of the world's best footballers, but doing so with the aggression of the super-confident. No, they do not yet have a famous war cry, like France's "Allez!" But the French are going home in defeat, along with the fallen warriors of Argentina...
More than 1 million troops stand toe-to-toe along the 1,800-mile India-Pakistan border, with both sides saying they will fight, if necessary. It would not take much to light this tinderbox. Experts believe another terrorist attack by Kashmiri separatists could lead India to retaliate against rebel training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Indian analysts fear that Pakistan almost surely would respond in kind, perhaps diverting Indian forces with strikes along the Pakistan-India border to the south. From there the battle could conceivably escalate to a nuclear conflict, with devastating consequences: a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency...
Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty always pointed out that Grant could improve another two feet if her toe ever healed...