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...films attract respected actors as well. The primal gropers in Patrice Chereau's Intimacy, winner of the top prize at Berlin this year, are Mark Rylance, who runs London's Globe Theatre (where last year he played Hamlet), and New Zealand-born film star Kerry Fox. As Jay and Claire, they meet each week in his dingy London flat for an afternoon of brusque passion; its appeal is its anonymity. But Jay has to learn where his mystery lover comes from. His journey will remove the final veil of flesh--the one that separates two desperate souls. Chereau ultimately pushes...
...entry of the Northern Alliance into Kabul makes it imperative that the United States and the United Nations expedite the work of forming a coalition government. In a sign of progress, a U.N. envoy said yesterday that several Afghan groups (including the Northern Alliance) had agreed to meet in Berlin this weekend to begin talks, and had signed on to the U.N.’s vision of broad-based, multiethnic rule. The Northern Alliance has agreed to cede control in Kabul to such an interim government, but it must also allow a multinational peacekeeping force to temporarily take over...
...internal divisions - Hazari fighters last week marched into Kabul to stake their own claim for a share of the Alliance's spoils - the anti-Taliban group appears to have little enthusiasm for giving their old Pashtun enemies too much of a role. Indeed, Rabbani on Tuesday described the Berlin talks as largely "symbolic...
...city in 1996 - they hoped the fundamentalist militia would at least bring peace. Now rival warlords within the Northern Alliance and among former mujahedeen commanders in the Pashtun south are deploying fighters to stake their claim to post-Taliban Afghanistan, and next week's U.N.-sponsored talks in Berlin over the country's political future are part of an increasingly urgent effort to avoid a new civil...
...government, the Russians know that a renewed civil war may see Pakistan once again expand its influence, and avoiding that scenario may persuade them to push the Alliance to compromise. But that remains a tough call, and there are few encouraging signs right now that the warlords headed for Berlin next week are ready to cooperate in Afghanistan's national interests...