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...plus paycheck, a Bond Girl record, was an incentive. It was also a chance to switch gears from her last role, as the emotionally battered death-row-inmate's widow in Monster's Ball, for which she won this year's Best Actress Oscar. "After making something as emotionally wrought as Monster's Ball, I thought, 'What fun would it be to go play in the World of Bond...
...Jong Il, the Dear Leader, is of course more experienced at emulating Stalin's gulags than Adam Smith's capitalism. Yet Kim Yong Sul, North Korea's vice-minister for foreign trade, called the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region "a new historical miracle" wrought by Kim Jong Il "in the hope of achieving prosperity for Korea." Not so long ago, U.S. President George W. Bush branded North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil," along with Iraq and Iran. But the xenophobic Kim now seems increasingly frantic to mend relations with the outside world and leapfrog his poverty-stricken people...
...rendered gimpy and disfigured from years spent under the yoke of New Balances. Pointing to his own feet, Teddy illustrated the sort of vigorous, proud and gloriously unmarred pinky toes that could flourish in the absence of shoes. I again peered downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages and more like unwanted souvenirs from a childhood spent living far too close to a radioactive dump. As we crossed Harvard Yard, I made great pains...
...Nature can take some blame for the tribulations of river life in China, but most goes to Mao Zedong. The devastation wrought upon this part of the country over the past 10 years owes much to the thoughtless policies of communist China's original Chairman, who was born in a Hunan village only a few hundred kilometers from Orange Island. Convinced that Chinese peasants could stuff their granaries if they would only grow more and more rice, Mao ordered peasant communes to "plant grain everywhere." In the 1950s, work brigades flew banners reading "Turn Waste Land to Great Land...
...Despite hashing's international veneer, a finely wrought British toilet humor still predominates in hash circles?the post-run roundup of jokes, insults and infractions. The naming of newcomers, a long-standing hash tradition usually accompanied by a liberal anointment of beer and flour, can border on the obscene. "You aren't supposed to like your hash name," says Martin ("Camel") Luzon, so dubbed for his long legs and loping gait. "Usually it's some sort of caricature, or comes from something that happened on a run." He cites the example of "Skidmark," an unfortunate hasher caught with his pants...