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Karsanbhai returns in the evening, grimy from sweat and worn from walking all day without food or water. He can't bear to look Sumati in the eye. "Any news?" she asks, keeping her voice as matter-of-fact as a mother's anxiety will allow. She knows the answer before Karsanbhai can deliver it: "No. Maybe tomorrow." At night, Sumati breaks down and wails for her missing son. Karsanbhai admonishes her: "Why are you grieving for somebody who isn't dead? You know we will find him, it's only a matter of days." An hour later...
During the campaign, Bush was highly critical of Clinton's policy. But he takes office when most of the mechanisms applied against Saddam have worn out. The 10-year-old sanctions imposed by the U.N. have unraveled. Countries such as France and Russia prefer to do business with Iraq. Moderate Arab states don't like Saddam but can't stomach the deprivations suffered by ordinary Iraqis. Egypt has restored diplomatic relations. The U.N. weapons-inspections regime is dead. The Bush Administration is pushing money to opposition groups that most analysts say are too weak, divided and unpopular to do much...
...During the campaign, Bush was highly critical of Clinton's policy. But he takes office when most of the mechanisms applied against Saddam have worn out. The 10-year-old sanctions imposed by the U.N. have unraveled. Countries such as France and Russia prefer to do business with Iraq. Moderate Arab states don't like Saddam but can't stomach the deprivations suffered by ordinary Iraqis. Egypt has restored diplomatic relations. The U.N. weapons-inspections regime is dead. The Bush administration is pushing money to opposition groups that most analysts say are too weak, divided and unpopular to do much...
...Sonatine he's Murakawa, a big-timer, the ceo of evil?and he's "worn out," ready to retire. A yakuza gathering is like afternoon at a retirement club, each man alone in regret and anxiety. Sonatine, which secured Kitano's reputation in the West, plays like a gangster King Lear as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. The soliloquies are bloody battles, illuminated by the sheet-lightning pyrotechnics of automatic gunfire; but the rest is Kitano walking, sitting, staring. Till he blows his brains...
...believe it or not, movie theaters. On top of that challenge, director Fay Sam Ang took on the additional burden of making a mythological film about a beautiful half-snake, half-human without the aid of digital special effects. Ang's solution: to glue live snakes onto a cap worn by his exceedingly cooperative leading lady, 17-year old newcomer Pich Chanboramey. "Sometimes the snakes would leap off her head," the director recalls, "and we'd have to chase them around...