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...Host Sarah Silverman began by reminding the audience of the event's significance in the film world: "If a bomb went off here," the comic said, "There would be no one left to make a documentary about it." A lot of Santa Monica, Calif., sun shone down on the dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which won Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin - who's also nominated for an Oscar - Best Director for the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and best first screenplay for Michael Arndt...
Shortly after Saddam's ouster in 2003, Omar showed up in Iraq. He says he was looking for reconstruction work. Government lawyers say he was helping plan terrorist attacks. In 2004, American troops arrested Omar at his Baghdad home, allegedly finding guns and bomb parts...
...suffice) and you long for a little artlessness.But, in truth, Eggers’ retelling of this story is exactly what we needed. For those of us who have been reading new stories about hundreds upon hundreds of deaths, who are no longer shocked by another headline about a bomb in some distant city, and who have difficulty remembering (if we ever knew in the first place) who exactly the Lost Boys of Sudan were, this book gives us some of our heart back.We’ll never need to scrounge around for those details because the tragedy comes alive...
...Here's a worst-case scenario: A European Muslim decides Islam would be served by his martyrdom - a suicide attack on the United States. He takes the first plane to New York, buys all the bomb components he needs at a hardware store, and heads off to blow himself up in the middle of a concert at Madison Square Garden. Our first and probably only warning would come from a cooperative European intelligence service...
...embassy in Tel Aviv, killing three. A second bomber's device failed to go off. Perhaps more alarmingly, it turns out one of the bombers had worked at Heathrow Airport as a security guard. Only the British authorities can tell us whether he had the capacity to slip a bomb on an American airplane - or help us stop the next British suicide bomber...