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...referring to the fact that Luken would have run virtually unopposed. Having raised just $20,000, Fuller has moved from the suburbs into an apartment in town and is running a grass-roots campaign while courting business leaders. Luken, however, is a seasoned pro, a Cincinnati mayor in the '80s and one-term Congressman. He has been forming "reconciliation committees" and taking other steps to mend race relations...
Hong kong film people have a well-earned rep as the hardest workers in show biz. In the mid-'80s Chow Yun-fat made a dozen pictures a year. But now that the local industry is crawling out of a post-'97 abyss, in which Hollywood films ruled while the home team slumped, it's almost unfair that one man should be hogging the box-office receipts and the critical laurels...
...This was largely thanks to Wai, a pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas. In the '80s they had worked together at tvb, Hong Kong's highest-rated channel. (That's also where To meet his wife Paulina; they have been married for 23 years.) Wai made his directorial debut in 1995 with Peace Hotel, a Chow Yun-fat Eastern Western whose bold, dusky style seemed indebted equally to Woo, Sergio Leone and Wong...
...them, and zones of control in which their enemy enters only for short periods in heavily-armed contingents. That, together with a civilian population overwhelmingly supportive of the anti-occupation cause has created perfect conditions for guerrilla warfare - something the PLO never had in exile. In the 70s and 80s, there were isolated terrorist attacks and the occasional kamikaze guerrilla sent across the border on a hang-glider; while in the West Bank and Gaza militant youths were confined to stones and gasoline bombs and the occasional handgun. Oslo has brought the different dimensions into physical proximity, meaning the stone...
...precise-looking 48-year-old with close-cropped white hair and a neatly-trimmed goatee, Antoniotti did his own apprenticeship here in the 1960s and lived through the lean years of the '70s and '80s, when cheap quartz watches from the Far East decimated the Swiss industry's traditional market. "If I'd had kids back then, I'd never have advised them to go into this business," he says. But today that trend has been thrown into reverse as watch manufacturers scramble to make up for two decades when recruiting was nonexistent...