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Like politicians everywhere, Papua New Guinean M.P.s are programmed to plot. Eighteen months after a national election, a new government loses its immunity from votes of no confidence - and disgruntled M.P.s on both sides of Parliament start conspiring to unseat it. Of 11 governments since Independence in 1975, only six have been elected. Five won power through no-confidence votes or the threat of them; none has lasted a full five-year term. "Abusing the 18-month grace period is like a disease in P.N.G. politics," says Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. "Those who feel they've missed out always...
...lookout for Gadahn and six other alleged al-Qaeda associates, Ashcroft repeated the claim of an al-Qaeda--related group that preparations for a massive attack inside the U.S. were "90%" done, although he acknowledged that officials had not picked up any specifics about a plot. Intelligence officials questioned the credibility of the group but insisted there was ample support for Ashcroft's warning. The same day that Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were making their case, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was on TV declaring that the intelligence was "not the most disturbing that I have personally seen...
...remote houses and crime scenes. It is the condition in which we live, and sometimes the all-knowing detective arrives too late to wrap up the loose ends or not at all. "Time never simplifies--it unravels and complicates," De Kretser writes. "Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken...
...admire his tireless attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with the promise of cholesterol." After all, this is the man who spent a good part of Encore Provence searching for the perfect corkscrew. But while he's caressing every grape and truffle, his half-baked caper plot runs on autopilot. Uncork his new book? If you must, but only if there's nothing more bubbly at hand. This one is vin ordinaire...
...Asia wasn't the only continent that made the 57th session of this world-cinema showcase a successful one. The opening-night film, Bad Education, from Pedro Almod?var, gave plenty of hints about the movies to come: a film noir thriller with oodles of plot (the festival rediscovered narrative tension this year), an expos? of child abuse (perhaps a dozen films touched upon this sensitive theme), and a demonstration of masterly verve from a veteran director. Almod?var has for decades been described as the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema. Now he is middle-aged, and terrific...