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...Perhaps the film's most surprising twist is its humor. When an unwitting real estate agent comes to collect his rent from the bed-confined couple, Candy tells him: "We're junkies; I'm a hooker; he's hopeless." When they move to the country, Candy complains that their living room is too dark, so Dan knocks a skylight through the roof. In this way, Armfield lets light into their darkest hours, bringing a heightened sense of mortality that seems to stem from his own childhood. "When I was 13 years old, my mum was given six months to live...
...Apart from the blogosphere brawl it has caused, McCain's recent graduation speaking tour was pure political genius. By choosing to speak first at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, McCain helped make amends with the fundamentalists he infuriated back in 2000 when he denounced Falwell as an "agent of intolerance." And by delivering the same speech at Liberty University and the New School, McCain bolstered his credentials as a "straight shooter" with a political class that's easily impressed by such pirouettes...
...series of memorial plaques to 40,000 local people arrested by the state security forces from being erected outside Germany's Stasi memorial, an old interrogation center and prison that now serves as a museum. "They are telling lies!" shouted the group's organizer, Wolfgang Schmidt, a former agent, who also used his website to accuse the museum's director, Hubertus Knabe, of being a "professional agitator." Earlier this month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding...
...Seif al Islam dismisses the assassination charges, but acknowledges that the Libyan agent was part of an effort to provide support to Saudis opposed to the Al Saud regime. Libya, he contends, has longstanding complaints of its own about Saudi support for Libyan Islamic extremists, including one who tossed a dud hand grenade at Gaddafi in 1995. Libyan support for Saudi dissidents accelerated after Abdullah scolded Gaddafi at an Arab summit in March 2003 during a session broadcast live throughout the Arab world. "You can say there was an activity," says Seif al Islam, "but not to kill the crown...
...empire that already absorbs about 80% of the U.S. intelligence budget. In that view, the CIA needs to remain an independent counterweight to the Pentagon, another set of eyes, ears and instincts, not become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in August 2004, he strongly supported the plan to create the DNI role, over Rumsfeld's objections, and he even proposed--to no avail--that the NSA be moved out of the Pentagon and into the DNI portfolio...