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...traps guard a tiny, fast green. And I've been grouped with three aces who fly in every year from Japan to be humbled by this obstacle course of bunkers, lakes and foliage designed by Jack Nicklaus to keep balls out of holes and golfers returning for more. "Jai yen, jai yen," whispers my caddy, Sawat, in Thai. "Keep a cool heart...
...role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Robert Schenkkan adapt Greene’s book, while Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof...
...role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Robert Schenkkan adapt Greene’s book, while Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof...
...Noyce’s adaptation of the 1956 Graham Greene novel stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler, the middle-aged London Times foreign correspondent covering the French-Indochina war in Saigon. Fowler, who lives in Vietnam with a beautiful ex-taxi dancer named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), finds this lifestyle imperiled when a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong and tries to wrest her away. As the eponymous “quiet American,” Pyle is rather the opposite—his naive idealism and fervent democratic bent wreak...
...argue the deflationistas. As they see it, there is plenty more the BOJ should do. It can engage in "quantitative easing," they say, which is fancy talk for flooding the system with money, either by printing yen or buying huge slugs of government bonds. Former BOJ official and current Diet member Kouhei Ohtsuka snickers at the first option, calling it "helicopter money." "Just because you fly around sprinkling the ground with cash doesn't mean people are going to spend it," he says. And the second option? The BOJ has been quietly buying greater quantities of government bonds since early...