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...officially neutral Laos, the Hmong fought to contain Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos and to rescue downed American flyers involved in a covert bombing campaign. The Hmong campaign was not publicly acknowledged by the U.S. until 1994, when former CIA Director William Colby told Congress of the Hmong's "heroism and sacrifice." Shortly after the Pathet Lao regime took power in 1975-two years after the U.S. had left the country-tens of thousands of Hmong refugees began arriving in neighboring Thailand to escape persecution in Laos. Many were relocated...
Take the latest of his films, Intimate Strangers. When we first meet Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire), she is all earth tones and hesitations. William (Fabrice Luchini), her interlocutor, is all buttoned up--suit, tie, suspiciously neat desk. Anna tells a story of a marriage that has become sexless and hostile. We learn that William has inherited his business (and his home office) from his father; he has never lived outside these confines. We know from dozens of other movies that each of these characters is destined to bloom. What we can't guess is how the narrative is going to encourage...
...instance, count on the suddenness with which obsession takes over William's life. He's soon trotting down the hall to consult with the shrink Anna meant to visit. We don't count on the fact that she sees through William but keeps returning to talk to him anyway--she's that erratic...
...movie. Minor characters keep turning up--Anna's menacing husband, her body-builder lover, William's divinely cranky secretary--to keep it hopping. Anna's story that she accidentally-on-purpose ran over her spouse in their car seems preposterous. But one day he hobbles in on his cane and starts jealously beating on William. The husband may have been ill used, but he's still desperately in love...
...backers from Texas have provided big sums to SBVT, and last week Bush campaign counsel Benjamin Ginsberg resigned from the campaign after acknowledging that he had advised the group, though he insisted he had done nothing illegal. Now it turns out that retired Rear Admiral and swift-boat veteran William Schachte, who claimed the wound that won Kerry his first Purple Heart was self-inflicted, is counsel at the same law firm as David Norcross, chairman of this week's Republican National Convention. Norcross tells TIME he knew nothing about Schachte's claim. "There's no connection whatsoever," says Bush...