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DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964...
Meanwhile, Coulter had emerged as a star in the 24-hour news culture that flowered in the mid-'90s. In 1995, giddy after Republicans took Congress for the first time in 40 years, she had moved from an anonymous corporate-law job in Manhattan to the Washington office of a...
At the heart of the movie are the three Gao siblings: Gao Weihong (Zhang Jingchu), the rebellious sister who wants to become a paratrooper and is constantly at war with forces determined to keep her grounded; her slow-witted older brother Gao Weiguo (Feng Li), whose parents favor him as...
The popular Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere), the skater Casey is studying, is training for the regional championships under her mother (Kim Cattrall), a type-A, washed-up skater herself, who projects her longtime goals onto her typically-Disney sharp-skating, sharp-witted, blonde daughter. Gen, though, would rather be eating...
Shakespeare didn't call his play Shylock: The Jew of Venice. The title character is Antonio, who rashly wagered his flesh as collateral for a loan. Shylock was simply Antonio's banker, whose humiliation--by lovely, quick-witted Portia--is irrelevant to the romantic intriguing that consumes most of the...