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...TIME a few days before the beginning of the Aqsa intifadeh last year, predicting that such an uprising against Israel was imminent. The sheik argued that it was not Hamas fundamentalists like him who endangered peace, but Israel. "I'm not dangerous," said the sheik, 43. "I'm a victim...
...Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider tobacco case. "My client had a belief there is a negative campaign against her," Palladino told TIME, "and the suspicion that Tommy Mottola was behind it... Her beliefs were well founded... My client is not going to be a victim. She is determined that this is going to end." Mottola and Sony have denied the charge...
Finally, a nifty twist: a blackmailer (Goran Visnjic, the hottie from ER) falls in love with his victim (Tilda Swinton). Actually, the idea is so old it's new: this is a remake of Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment (1949). She's trying to protect her son from a predatory lover who is accidentally killed; he's an agent of evil too soulful for his own good. Their gripping story is told with sober conviction in this elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting movie...
...this year he dropped the modest, underdog thing. Even the victim stuff had expired: despite unveiling his wobbly French, he was booed by the French on the eve of the race for kicking a Frenchman off his team--though, really, what wouldn't the French boo if it's in their country and isn't French? Then, like a true American, he went on to posterize--just like Jordan did to Ewing--Jan Ullrich...
...company's relative wealth and that 80% of the government revenues its gas fields generate are diverted back to Jakarta. When Abdurrahman Wahid became President in 1998, he vowed to correct the imbalance and even talked about allowing Aceh to hold a referendum on independence, but those promises fell victim to government paralysis and a strong military lobby that didn't want to let Aceh...