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...Hero?Zhang's attempt to explode in the worldwide movie market as Ang Lee did with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?is a lucid and cunning drama: ancient history (3rd century B.C.) refracted through a modern skeptic's sensibility. It views the birth of a nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. For they are as duplicitous in their emotional lives as in their fatal politics...
...where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones for Ibarra, which won the American Book Award; another novel, Consider This, Senora; and an essay collection, The Tiger in the Grass...
...week's end, Helgesen was close. Negotiators from the rebel Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam and the Sri Lankan government had made such remarkable progress that a return to the conflict?which has cost 64,000 lives since 1983?has become all but unthinkable. The turning point came Dec. 4, when Tiger negotiators abandoned their demand for a separate state. The next day, negotiators announced an outline for a new federal system allowing Tamil-speaking areas the right to "internal self-determination...
...Many more tough issues will have to be resolved, including the establishment of boundaries for the proposed Tamil zone. And reclusive Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran realizes a final agreement will still have to be sold to the people back home. An insider at the talks said Prabhakaran warned his negotiators by telephone: "We told (Tiger rebels) to fight and die for a separate state. Now we are asking them to be chums with their enemies again." Observers, however, hope the thaw in Oslo will continue. "There was no heat," says the insider. "Only warmth...
...Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda, launched an attack on positions held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The anti-Saddam p.u.k., which controls the eastern section of the autonomous zone maintained by British and U.S. air cover, said it repulsed the attackers. SRI LANKA Tigers Purr The government and Tamil Tiger rebels agreed to a federal system, boosting the prospects of a lasting peace after a 19-year civil war. But Parliament must first approve the change to the constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority the government does not have. Meanwhile, Japan agreed...