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...impoverished regime's only real bargaining chip: its ability to threaten its neighbors. Unveiling a new missile would fit nicely with that strategy. "This may be a way of poking us and saying, 'Pay attention to North Korea. We can still be a pain in the neck,'" says Joel Wit, a senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based public policy think tank. The delayed negotiations resumed Saturday in New York, and State Department officials reported progress in the talks. They will brief the White House this week...
...while The Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly in summer. So eventually the running around and explosions commence. As usual, the main things lost in the hubbub are wit and logic...
...pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd to boogie along, completing the hall's transformation from theater to disco. This mix of circus and performance art from the Argentine troupe De La Guarda is original, eye popping, repetitive. It lacks the wit of Blue Man Group or the elegance of Cirque du Soleil. But man, those kids...
...pair need all their wit to thwart the relentlessly scheming Don Rafael. A blackguard worthy of the two Zorros' steel, he's richly realized by Stuart Wilson as a sort of Darth Vader of romance, helplessly embracing its dark side. Long ago he killed Diego's wife, with whom he was in love, and then abducted their daughter to raise as his own. Played in adulthood by the ravishingly beautiful and wonderfully spirited Catherine Zeta- Jones, she is, of course, destined to find both her true father and her true love behind one Zorro mask or another...
...friend put it--sense of rage. Investigators think Kip shot his father as they argued over his dad's plan to send him to a National Guard program for troubled youths. Kip had been expelled that day for taking a gun to school, and his dad was at his wit's end. It seems that...