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...Niro. Maybe it's the oversize aviator sunglasses, the spiky haircut or the fact that he's a 22-year-old Canto-pop idol. But as Chen strides down the claustrophobic hallways of a Hong Kong tenement in the opening scenes of Infernal Affairs II (IA2), there's a whiff of De Niro menace?especially when Chen, his gun concealed in an envelope, shoots an elderly crime boss through a doorway grill in a brutal, abrupt hit. The shot is a conspicuous reference to De Niro's first murder in Godfather II, and it stakes the ground...
Bond traders can be a perverse group. A whiff of economic recovery had Wall Street pushing bond yields skyward (and prices downward) even before last week's report that GDP grew at a surprisingly strong annual rate of 2.4% in the second quarter. Now even stronger growth is widely expected the rest of this year. Since the middle of June, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond has surged to nearly 4.5% from 3.1%--a staggering reversal that is shutting down mortgage refinancings and forcing up business borrowing costs. If the trend persists much longer, these higher rates...
...legal activists--gay and conservative--saying the decision is a sea change? Partly because donations rise when emotions do. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell said in the New York Times that Thursday was "as bad a day as the court has had," you caught a whiff of his next funding pitch. Similarly, David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay political group, admits that there have been "only a handful" of sodomy prosecutions. "But," he notes brightly, "this decision provides momentum to our legislative work...
...Thailand's terror crackdown hasn't been well received in some quarters, however. Critics in the country claim that the arrest of the three Thais, announced just hours before the Thaksin-Bush meeting, had the whiff of a publicity stunt. In the Muslim south, an area already weighed down by corruption, poverty and violence, the arrest of three prominent citizens has been met with suspicion. "People down here are shocked and angry," says Chid-chanok Rahimula, a political scientist at the Prince of Songkhla University in Pattani in southern Thailand and an acquaintance of one of the accused, Dr. Waemahadi...
...lend a whiff of aristocracy to his enterprise, Singer relies on the orotund majesty of British thesping. Stewart and McKellen give heft to their respective patriarch and pariah. They make each debate on the shaky future of mankind sound as if it were taking place in the House of Lords--even if they are both forced to sport the goofiest headgear in fantasy-film history...