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...thus are bound to fall in love, as in The Ugly Truth, or strangers with complementary needs, as in The Answer Man, or, for a change, folks who seem simpatico but have trouble becoming a couple, as in (500) Days of Summer. What the new films share is an aim to evoke familiar laughs and perhaps a climactic tear. That's the difference between an action movie and a comedy: the first makes you gasp, "I've never seen that before!"; the second has you nodding, saying "Hey, that...
...understand Joe Klein's article "... and Start Talking to Hamas" Israelis should talk with Hamas, whose aim is to kill them [June 22]. How many Americans would advocate talks with Bin Laden? Salomon Yves Cohen, PARIS...
...Sources at the Interior Ministry say they can't rule out the possibility that jihadist groups could be plotting an attack in the run-up to the election on September 27, or on election day itself, with the aim of pushing for a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Until now, Germany has been spared a major terrorist attack. But there is an ongoing and very real threat. German authorities say they have foiled at least six major terrorist plots since 2000. "Al-Qaeda has its eyes set on Germany," Guido Steinberg, an analyst at the German Institute for International...
...press. "Increasingly, Sepah used the Basij as a force for indoctrination and in the role of a watchdog group on campuses, factories and even tribal units," says Frederic Wehrey, adjunct senior policy analyst at the Rand Corp., who has done several joint studies on the Sepah. "The aim was to militarize civil society to prevent currents that the Islamic republic is opposed...
...What I've said is consistently anything in life can happen. It is absolutely not my intent, not my goal and not my aim. All these people who make these grand plans are very much confused about the way life really works." -On a potential run for President (ABC News, April...