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...deaths. Asked by TIME about Va Char's allegations, the Lao Foreign Ministry said: "According to the description of the tape, we think there is a lot of fabrication floating around. It could be a fabrication harming the good image of the Lao People's Democratic Republic by ill-intentioned groups." A Lao official who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity said that Lao forces "never kill anybody" among the Hmong and described Va Char as a dangerous man and a criminal...
...campaigned on a secret plan to end the Vietnam War. This latest vacuous ploy makes previous Bush policy announcements pale in comparison. While we’ve come to expect our president to disingenuously pander leftward while lurching ever farther right—think outdoorsy photo-ops for the ill-named Healthy Forest Initiative, which opened up 20 million acres of National Forests to logging and made them more susceptible to fires—this time the Republicans aren’t even bothering to put a proposal on the table. That way, whenever anyone criticizes it, they can reply...
...Months after 9/11, even survivors who weren't injured became physically ill. "I'd have high fevers. I'd go to the hospital. They couldn't figure it out," says Elia Zedeno, a financial analyst. One day, Zedeno saw a man run by her on the street, and without thinking, she started running behind him. "Then I realized no one else was running," she says...
...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it--as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
...body-builder lover, William's divinely cranky secretary--to keep it hopping. Anna's story that she accidentally-on-purpose ran over her spouse in their car seems preposterous. But one day he hobbles in on his cane and starts jealously beating on William. The husband may have been ill used, but he's still desperately in love...