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...show, it is pretty funny. But it’s not perfect. Colbert’s interview with guest Stone Phillips during the premier felt awkward. It’s one thing, as Sacha Baron Cohen does so well in the Ali G show, to take on a different persona to interview someone who has no idea who you are; when the interviewee is in on the joke, it feels like a waste of our time...
...terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved us when nobody came from the government," says a survivor, Ali Geelani, 28. "Musharraf has given us the earthquake; they have given us life. And if they ask me, I will go for jihad with them." Others weren't given a choice. A teenager known only as Bobby was pulled from the ruins by Lashkar-e-Taiba volunteers. When they discovered...
...ites overwhelmingly support the document, in part because of the instructions from the powerful Shi'ite clerical body, the merjariya, led by the venerated Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who called for a "yes" vote on the document. This was clear from talking to voters in the Shi'ite areas. However, because of security restrictions, TIME reporters were unable to visit Sunni neighborhoods where attitudes toward the constitution differed from Shi'ites'. Residents of these areas, reached by phone said there were many people in the streets ready to vote against the constitution, but these reports could not be independently...
...missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...
...been ripped from the “Friday” films. The series is apparently based on Rock’s life as a 13-year old growing up in Bed-Stuy but attending an all-white school. But remember: this is from the writing team of Rock and Ali LeRoi, who brought you such hits as “Head of State” and “Down to Earth,” two movies which were somehow not universally lauded by critics. I’ll give it this—it’s definitely...