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...action, comedy, policier, and of course, romance. Many movies try to cross genre boundaries to reach a larger audience, and Morel is no exception. But his approach is confused, and given the seriousness of one thematic element it tries to weave in—that of terrorism and suicide bombings??that confusion proves detrimental to the film as a whole...
...four bombings??three targeting Underground trains and one a double-decker bus—struck within an hour of each other yesterday morning. British authorities said they had no warning of the attacks. The New York Times reported that the charges were detonated by timers rather than suicide bombers...
These comparisons, depoliticized through a child’s perceptions, touch on how the nature of terrorism has changed since World War II more than they evoke a political reading of the United States’ aggressions. The bloody horror of past bombings??–both fire and atomic––has been replaced with the impersonal coldness of Sept. 11, many of whose victims, like Oskar’s father, were never even found...
...change its position on Iraq in the aftermath of the attacks; 90 percent of the electorate opposed Azanar’s decision to send troops in the first place. The majority of swing voters—those who switched their votes to the Socialists in the wake of bombings??had planned to vote for Azanar’s Popular Party in spite of its policy on Iraq...
...Students Confront Dershowitz Over Article,” March 20). I was there, too, standing opposite the group with a counter-protest of my own. To make sure that both sides of the argument were represented, I wrote two signs of my own: “End Suicide Bombings?? and (in response to the protesters’ “What if Cambridge were Bulldozed?”) my own “What if Tommy’s Were Blown Up?” I stood across from the students, occasionally reminding passersby to look in both...