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...report that, of the early-days triumvirate, only Powers lived to lay hands upon the world championship trophy. Life is not fair...
...soon settled upon a strategy: find a luxury apartment in one of the best downtown areas, hire a property firm like Colliers International or Jones Lang LaSalle to manage it, then lease it to expats. (Locals, I was told, hate to rent.) "Go for a prime location in the city center," advised Wayne Zane, an analyst at Colliers. "In a downturn, it will be less affected." So I began touring apartments in buildings with names like Baroque Palace and Sea of Clouds Garden. The target zone: three downtown districts--Xuhui, Jingan and Luwan--that all seem certain to remain prime...
...princes, viziers, generals, and rival clergymen. According to legend, before being dispatched on a mission, an operative would be drugged into a deep sleep. He would wake in a lush garden filled with fountains, music and beautiful maidens. After cavorting briefly, he would be drugged back to sleep, and upon waking again would be told that he had tasted the paradise that awaited on the successful completion of his suicide mission...
...JIHADIST SUICIDE BOMBER AND HIS like are cowardly egocentrics. Uppermost in the bomber's mind is the promise that he will enter paradise immediately upon dying as a martyr. There was scant mention of furthering the Iraqi or Muslim cause, no explanation of how his death might lead to some lofty goal. The bomber's prime aim is personal spiritual salvation and reward. Casuistry and sophistry are the tools used by terrorists to justify their actions. The bomber relies on selective application of Koran verses as a rationale for his behavior. He aims to get to paradise even...
...mostly the roots of The Island are to be found in every (presumptive) summer blockbuster you ever saw, especially the futuristic ones--or decided, upon mature reflection, not to see. To give Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) his due, there's a certain wit and splash (or should we make that splat?) in his action sequences--nice stuff with a flying motorcycle and a surprise-filled sequence in which the leads are hanging onto a skyscraper sign that's losing its moorings. But for all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design...