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...commotion by gaining a higher profile than ever before and showing its ability to alter the political debate. After Giuliani's counter-ad in the Times, the organization fired back with a TV spot titled, "Giuliani: A Betrayal of Trust", accusing the former New York mayor of being "AWOL" from the Iraq Study Group when he missed meetings while giving high-paid speeches to corporate clients. (Citing schedule conflicts, Giuliani eventually quit the group without ever attending a meeting. His campaign now says he resigned because he was planning to run for President and didn't want to create...
...days after returning stateside from a tour of duty in Iraq, a young soldier goes AWOL. His father, Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), himself a retired non-commissioned officer, goes in search of him. It soon becomes clear that his son was murdered and dismembered near a military base where he was temporarily reassigned, the chief suspects being four buddies with whom he served overseas. But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal...
Some U.S. GIs return from Iraq missing more than a limb. Their minds are not so much broken as AWOL. One soldier's father (Tommy Lee Jones) wants to know what happened to his boy, and a spunky cop (Charlize Theron) helps him locate the horror. Director Paul Haggis (Crash) mines all the nuances of love, loyalty and depravity in this searing, caring drama...
...month, re-enlistment is still a problem. Only half the soldiers renew their contracts once their three-year tours are up. Many Afghans say their $100 monthly salaries are less than what they can make growing poppies or smuggling. The escape rate, the equivalent of going AWOL in the U.S., is an ongoing headache for both the American and Afghan commanders. After a grueling tour in eastern Afghanistan, Waris sent his men home for a month's holiday. Six weeks later, they were still trickling back to their base near Kabul. One soldier, already late by a week, had told...
...just familiarity that breeds contempt for love stories. It may be actually getting harder to get people to believe in them, acknowledges Richard Curtis, writer of such indelible romances as Four Weddings and Notting Hill, because our expectations have changed. "If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it's called searingly realistic, even though it's never happened in the history of mankind," he notes. "Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over...