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...nothing else, Scooby-Doo reconfirms Andy Warhol's genius; it's hard to artfully recontextualize trash. This movie will make any adults it drags in wonder why they ever liked this dumb cartoon. Meanwhile, all it has to offer the intended audience, children and the stoned, are bits such as an extended Shaggy-vs.-Scooby gas-passing contest. The cast does great impressions of the original cartoon characters, and the computer-generated Scooby is convincing, but it turns out that what we liked about Scooby-Doo in the first place was that nobody was trying. --By Joel Stein
...tough questions, such as Jerusalem, refugees, settlers and future borders would be left for negotiations between Israel and the new entity over a three-year time frame. In other words, Oslo II but the Palestinian entity is called a "provisional state" rather than an "authority." No wonder the proposal has raised scant enthusiasm on either side of the divide. The Palestinians and Arab moderates want the long-term framework of a solution to be articulated now, and the parties to be moved swiftly towards realizing it. And the Israelis insist that to even talk of a Palestinian state...
...Critics wonder, then, why such a formidable businessman needs to be awarded advantages such as sole-source government contracts. Of course, cultivating political connections for business purposes is standard procedure in many countries. But in Malaysia, the stakes are especially high: you can be catapulted from the ranks of the merely wealthy into the rarefied status of billionairedom in part by earning the confidence of the right people. The companies Mokhtar controls have a stake in almost every sector of the economy: from the publicly listed Malakoff, now Malaysia's biggest private sector producer of electrical power, to Pernas, which...
...These punk rockers of the soccer pitch are deceptively dangerous. The player with the Mohawk, Kazuyuki Toda, is a defensive pest, perpetually in the faces of opponents. "My job is to do the dirty work," he says. Co-defender Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is so hyperkinetic it's a wonder he hasn't broken more than his nose, which was injured during a practice game and now requires the protection of a leather mask. On offense, Shinji Ono supplies the fancy footwork and sets up the pair of fair-haired attackers?Inamoto and the slightly disheveled beach bum of the two, Takayuki...
...Days of Wonder: No one can predict...