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...supposed to have been triggered by The Basketball Diaries. Another movie is now raising questions in the Virginia Tech massacre - because the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, made a photo in which he looks fierce and holds a raised hammer, in a manner similar to a shot in Park Chan-Wook's 2003 film Oldboy. Both Cho and the film are originally from South Korea. Both have undergone Americanization: Cho by moving to the U.S. when he was a kid, Oldboy by getting remade as a Hollywood movie that, last I heard, was to come out next year...
NAMED. Margaret Chan, 59, assistant director-general for communicable diseases at the World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During...
...Jong-wook, who died of a brain hemorrhage last week at the age of 61, never really enjoyed the protocol demands of his job as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO); he seemed happiest rolling up his sleeves and making things happen. When he took the WHO post in 2003, he startled many experts by calling for access to drugs for three million HIV/AIDS sufferers by the end of 2005. It was a hugely ambitious goal?and focused global attention as never before on the injustice of people in poor countries dying because they could not afford lifesaving...
...Wook Kundor, a Malaysian woman who last week married a 33-year-old man, Muhamad Noor Che Musa 20 Number of previous husbands Wook...
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