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...traveled to the airport on Tuesday I noticed two elderly Buddhist nuns accepting alms at a large house on the outskirts of the city, the first adult clergy members I had seen doing this all week. But my line of sight was momentarily blocked by an image that better sums up a week in Rangoon in the aftermath of the pro-democracy protests. A fast-moving police wagon passed the two nuns; the arms of the detainees inside protruded through gaps in two iron grills along the vehicle's side...
...people will dispute the carnage that took place in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005: Women and children were killed in their homes alongside adult males by U.S. Marines. The Marines originally said that the civilians were killed as a result of a roadside bomb. TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006, beginning a series of official investigations and contributing to the loud public debate on the deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq. The trouble, however, has been with coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines involved...
...novel. He's talking about the mean streets the movie's characters inhabit, but Affleck acknowledges it has a more personal mean ing. "I think that's true for me like it is for anybody," he says. "To me the movie's about realizing that becoming an adult is about understanding there's no certainty. I used to think, Maybe there's some kind of answer key that you'll find that says, 'Well, the answer was B.' That doesn't exist. Really, you have to do what Kenzie did-make the decision based on what he believes in. Those...
...successful Indian books of the past few decades have not only been written in English but authored by Indians, or the children of Indians, living outside the country. Writers such as Salman Rushdie, who left India in his teens and has lived abroad for most of his adult life, and Nobel-prizewinning writer V.S. Naipaul, born in Trinidad of Indian descent, may be lauded around the globe but their reception in India is often less than warm...
Since 1968, when the ratings system was introduced, its classifications--G for general audiences, PG for parental guidance, PG-13 for sterner stuff kids could still see and R, restricting children's attendance except with an adult--have adapted to accommodate the evolving tastes of moviegoers. The G now goes to few films because parents figure a PG (say, Shrek the Third) is safe. The R promises hot stuff for fanboys, which has translated into hits in several genres: violent action (300), raunchy humor (Superbad) and lurid horror (the Saw franchise). PG-13 has become the money rating...