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Veteran FBI agent Danny Coleman, who served for years as the bureau's ranking expert on Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and the rest of the Qaeda inner circle, doesn't get too excited when he hears a report of Zawahiri's demise - such as the one that briefly grabbed headlines on Saturday before Pakistani officials shot it down...
Curtis is the agent provocateur of the two. In his 3-hr. BBC documentary, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, he makes a breathless case that the U.S. has shifted from a liberal democracy, pledging a better life for its citizens, to a threatening oligarchy, using the specter of alien enemies (lately al-Qaeda) to keep the public in fretful subjugation. He also argues that American neoconservatives have exaggerated the danger posed by Islamic jihadists. The argument, buttressed with a sassy use of news footage and clips from old films and TV shows, zips along with the confident...
...patiently poured oil on Capote's roiled waters. She was skittish, slightly wounded but also discreetly sexy in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. She was tough, omnicompetent and smart-mouthed as an FBI agent in The Interpreter. And she did the best she could to assert the reality principle amid the general incompetence of The Ballad of Jack and Rose. In 2005 Catherine Keener was everywhere, in big pictures and small, in hits and flops, quietly but insistently asserting her claim to being possibly the best character actress working today...
...would keep an eye on turmeric, the yellow spice that is a major ingredient in American mustard and Indian curries. A relative of ginger, turmeric comes from the underground stem of a tropical plant and is being carefully studied for its medicinal effects. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent that has anticancer properties and may offer significant protection against Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's begins as an inflammatory process in the brain. Anti-inflammatory agents like ibuprofen reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, and so do turmeric and its most studied component, curcumin. India has the world's lowest...
...notch training, the federation has brought in foreign coaches for short-term stints. In 2003, the sports authority also allowed wunderkind Peng to attend the prestigious Evert Tennis Academy in Florida. "She excelled very quickly," recalls John Cappo, managing director of IMG China, who has acted as Peng's agent. "In China, coaches focus on punishment and point out players' faults. We convinced her that she's a winner, and she started acting like one." Peng transformed from a top-300 to top-100 player. But within two months of her arrival in the U.S., Peng was recalled...