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...sure, these shifts in the Muslim media and public opinion have been subtle. Even with many Afghans rejoicing in recent weeks, "there is no love affair with the U.S.," says Fawaz Gerges, author of America and Political Islam. "Suspicion still runs very deep in most Arab countries about America's war aims." Many Muslim commentators are still exercised about U.S. policy toward Israel and its Arab neighbors. "If the U.S. decides to go after other Arab or Muslim countries," Gerges predicts, "there will be a major outcry." Despite the recent calm, in other words, the U.S. still has a long...
...only journalist at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress when Taliban prisoners staged a bloody uprising. He was the first to report the initial American casualty of the war, CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann, and filed riveting daily updates of the situation to TIME.com throughout the three-day affair...
This much of The Affair of the Necklace is true, and it makes for a sumptuous movie. John Sweet's script supplies Jeanne (Hilary Swank) with a good motive for her crime: she is supposed to be a noblewoman who has lost her lands and family because they fell out of favor with the crown. It also places her in some amusingly bad company--a sexually voracious Cardinal (Jonathan Pryce), a courtier who is too clever by half (Simon Baker), a fake noble husband (Adrien Brody) and the mystic mountebank Cagliostro (Christopher Walken, who is, as always, deliciously weird...
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...Sugar Peas,” the true standout of the collection, is a funny and simultaneously tragic diatribe on one man’s emotional polygamy. Thomas is married with children to Jutta. He becomes entangled in an extremely serious affair with Veronika, who wants a larger commitment from him, and after years of his double-life, she gives birth to his child. At this point, Schlink begins setting up Thomas’ ultimate flaw: obliviousness...