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...teenage double-bass virtuoso and aspiring jazz musician Hannah, whose sweet struggles with sexist bandmates, a stiflingly affectionate Jewish family and her own ample waistline in 1960s Paris provided the heart and laughter of the comedy The First Time I Turned 20. In her new release, a Franco-Algerian tale of confused identity, she plays the supporting role of Nadège, who becomes ensnared in a romance while accompanying a betrothed friend to her wedding. Although the part is smaller than her first two outings, Berry says Nadège's lively spirit prompted her to take the role...
...illegal immigrants earlier this year encouraged others. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Rabat had agreed to forcibly repatriate some of the immigrants currently in Melilla. Critics of the new accord say foisting the problem on Morocco is no solution. "They're driving them in buses to the Algerian desert with no water or food," claims Pepe Alonso, a Melilla lawyer who heads the local chapter of the Association for Human Rights. "This will cause many deaths." Médecins Sans Frontières said more than 500 immigrants had been abandoned by Moroccan authorities in the desert near...
...carry out the hit by Arafat's rivals within Fatah. Over the summer, branches of the Salah ed-Din Brigades also launched a series of kidnappings of foreign aid workers and journalists in what amounted to gangster-style extortion bids. Take the kidnapping of Muhammad Ouathi, a French-Algerian journalist. Members of the brigades swiped Ouathi in Gaza City on Aug. 14. Abu Samhadana stepped in to negotiate, persuading Palestinian officials to release, in return for the liberty of the journalist, 10 of his men held by the police for a raid on Gaza's central jail in January...
...expanding economically. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis, and get out. That nation will set itself right more easily without the U.S. tipping the balance. You wanted to oust Saddam Hussein. You did. Now leave. Arunachalam Ashokan Quilon, India As a former french paratrooper and commando during the Algerian war, I was surprised by several aspects of your report on the way Iraqi insurgents have adapted their tactics to U.S. forces. That six Marine snipers could be killed so easily while on a mission, as your story reported, shows a basic tactical error: in a military situation of stealth, a prime...
...week began, the first order of business was burying the dead in the wake of the airport atrocities. On both sides of the Atlantic, families and friends gathered to mourn their lost loved ones, who included five Americans, four Greeks, two Mexicans, an Italian, an Austrian, an Algerian and an Israeli. Nearly 400 people, among them U.S. Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb and Archbishop Justin Rigali, representing Pope John Paul II, gathered in the chapel of Rome's North American College for the funeral of Natasha Simpson, 11, the American schoolgirl who was the youngest of the airport victims...