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...films could seduce viewers into the world of mean men because their stars were beautiful. Kitano is not beautiful or ingratiating; not tall or slim or conventionally graceful. Chatty and capering on TV, he is typically mute and blocky in films. His face has the puffiness of a club fighter's after a beating. Yes, that face was partly paralyzed and rearranged in his 1994 motorcycle accident, but the only visible difference is a scar. Besides, his expression was always immobile. The movie Kitano was never exactly Jim Carrey...
Smile for the camera. Peruvian corruption fighter quits after he is filmed taking a bribe...
Roland Dumas has been many things in his life?Resistance fighter, lawyer, politician, art collector, Foreign Minister and, most recently, president of France?s highest tribunal. But last week, as the silver-haired ex-barrister faced charges that he had pressured a state-owned oil company to hire his mistress and lived grandly off her income, Dumas played a role he had never imagined: defendant...
...hard to see what surprises he could still have up his sleeve. The one surprise he could pull is letting Peres take over, because the polls give Peres a far stronger chance against Sharon. But backing out would not be the surprise of a fighter. Barak also has this possible meeting with Arafat on Sunday, at which they could put together some type of declaration, but even that would't amount to much...
...elections, he hoped to prove that he and his coalition were still popular among the country's poor. Military and civilian negotiators managed, with the help of some of the same special effects that had worked on Marcos - persuasion flights over the palace by the Philippines' antiquated F-5 fighter jets and the positioning of combat troops and armored personnel carriers outside its perimeter - to force a recalcitrant Estrada out of MalacaNang just five minutes before a second deadline of Saturday noon. Although Estrada did not actually resign, he agreed with the decision of the Supreme Court, which...