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...underground shopping mall. Accused of pocketing some $112,000 in bribes, Zhu attracted huge media attention on the mainland. He was fictionalized first in a best-selling book, Covering the Tracks, then in a hit TV mini-series. Now, his drama was about to take an even stranger twist...
...karaoke craze gets a fresh twist with Movie Karaoke, a new line of PC games from Fooseoke that lets you act out your favorite movie scenes. The first title in the series, Movie Karaoke Presents American Pie, includes 17 scenes from the three Pie movies. Just plug the included microphone into your computer and let the program guide you and a friend through the dialogue. The words appear onscreen and are highlighted--karaoke style--when it's your turn to perform...
...dazed, were searching for something. There was nothing close here for this man--his was a moment of complete loneliness ... Everywhere there was blood pouring out of him. Even the transparent, plastic splints around both legs had assumed a red tint. I felt weak. My stomach began to twist and sweat poured all over me. I sat down on the floor because I thought I was going to be sick ... It seemed absurd--a man dying alone in his own country. I wanted to cry but I thought that I couldn't let myself and so tears just welled...
...plot of Siddiq Barmak's Osama sounds like a twist on an old story. It's an unsentimental Yentl or--considering the eerie resemblance of Osama's Marina Golbahari to Hilary Swank--an Afghan Boys Don't Cry. In 2001 Iran produced a similar fable, Baran, set among illegal Afghan refugees in Tehran. But life has ways of imitating art. Osama, the first feature made in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power, is based on a true story. And truth shines through every frame, thanks to Barmak's storytelling skill and his young star's unaffected radiance...
...single-malt whisky brand, produced by London-based Diageo, the world's largest spirits maker, ran low on supply. So it blended malts from several distilleries and, except for changing "single-malt" to "pure-malt" on the bottle, kept the same labeling. That got some tartans in a twist. A Scottish Member of Parliament, Angus Robertson, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to protect Scotland's heritage, and Diageo agreed to change the color of its bottle. Sales of single-malt whisky continue to rise worldwide, though the overall market is relatively flat, according to Impact Databank...