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...film, based on a play by actor Ayub Khan Din, is the first feature by director Damien O'Donnell. It is billed as a comedy, and George's frustrations with his elusive, secretive family are surely funny. But Puri makes him more touching than a crude family tyrant. There is something lonely in his bustling blindness, something right about his resistance to sleazy modernism. He's both wrongheaded and good-hearted, and the actor and the film make something fine, winning and memorable of that conflict...
...overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles southeast of Grozny, said during a visit to Chechnya last month. This time the fighters are better trained, he added, so more civilians will die for each dead guerrilla...
...going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office to tell him about the blasts. His jaw drops. "Why?" is all he can manage...
...cook estimates that it will take 80 vats to feed everyone here this day. At least, he says, there is enough food. Two weeks before, inadequate supplies stirred the crowd into a frenzy. Mothers tore pots from starving children to feed their own. "It was terrible," recalls Dr. Ayub Sheik Yeron, the UNICEF representative who set up this feeding center last month. "When people have not eaten for three or four days, they lose control...
Like Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie is a unlikely comedy set in an early '80s London of racial tension and random sexuality. Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) live in a neighborhood that is the site of race riots and police brutality. They find no contradiction in basing their marriage on both "freedom and commitment." They do "get laid," but not together...