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...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...
...there we were, with darkness setting in, surrounded by curious and heavily armed Taliban. One fighter points up into the mauve twilight sky. I think he's showing me the crescent moon and I nod appreciatively: "Yes, very beautiful." Impatiently, he gestures over to a range of darkening hills, and then I see it: a B-52 bomber, its vapor trails catching the last rays of light. "American?" he asks me menacingly. "No, French...
...answer is that we are entertaining both at once, hope and despair at either end of the table, we had better learn to do it gracefully. "We're living through an eclipse of normality, a twilight landscape," says Edward Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. "The sun isn't quite right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family...
...bombs clearing the way for a quick ground operation. After less than two weeks, the Pentagon was claiming that its bombs had "eviscerated" the Taliban's military capability. But last week that optimism faded. Dreams of a hit-and-run war gave way to the reality of a long twilight struggle that seems sure to drag into the Afghan winter. After more than 3,000 American bombs, the Taliban still has plenty of fight left in it; Taliban troops have thwarted a Northern Alliance offensive at Mazar-i-Sharif; civilian deaths are climbing; and many coalition partners--most crucially Pakistan...
...bombs clearing the way for a quick ground operation. After less than two weeks, the Pentagon was claiming that its bombs had "eviscerated" the Taliban's military capability. But last week that optimism faded. Dreams of a hit-and-run war gave way to the reality of a long twilight struggle that seems sure to drag into the Afghan winter. After more than 3,000 American bombs, the Taliban still has plenty of fight left in it; Taliban troops have thwarted a Northern Alliance offensive at Mazar-i-Sharif; civilian deaths are climbing; and many coalition partners--most crucially Pakistan...