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...graduation, Ackil put his independent business hopes aside to start a career in business consulting. “It turned out that I really hated consulting,” Ackil said. “I didn’t like working in a cubicle and not being my own boss or being able to make anything out of a company.” Four years ago the pair decided to start their own restaurant. Ackil and Olinto’s main source of inspiration for b.good was the food they ate while growing up. “Jon would come...
...more intimate and painful. The first 20 minutes of the film suggests a mundane domestic drama and West Bank life looks crushingly dull. Two buddies, auto mechanics in their early 20s, kill time by drinking tea on a hillside above Nablus, gossiping about girls and whining about their boss. Dishes are washed, children are put to bed; there is not much else to do at night. Then one of the intifadeh's local leaders tells the friends that they've been chosen to blow themselves up the next day, in a mission that has been planned for months. What...
...constructing the bombs for the 2002 Bali attacks, is on Mindanao, but not as a guest of the M.I.L.F.; the U.S. is offering a bounty of $10 million for Dul Matin, making him Washington's third-most-wanted terrorist after Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq boss, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. With seasoned leaders like Dul Matin, Azahari and Nurdin on the loose and with a new generation of volunteers at their service, there is little doubt that more attacks can be expected...
...works on horrible cases in a leafy suburb. She has just returned from maternity leave--we first see her being awakened by her crying baby--but gets little support from her career-focused co-workers. "You have got to stop making decisions with your hormones," her (female) boss warns her. But her mom status is also an asset to her department, giving her moral authority with juries to argue cases involving women and children. It also provides her intuition; when she visits the home of a family where the husband is actually imprisoning his wife and kids...
...prey, Osama bin Laden, may be hiding. U.S. and Afghan officials believe that the war against the Taliban will go on for months, perhaps years. The longer the Taliban survives, the tougher it will become for the U.S. to penetrate the trails that might lead to al-Qaeda's boss. That reality is more openly acknowledged by officers on the ground than by their superiors back home. Turner says when he speaks to people in the U.S., "all they say is, 'Why haven't you caught Osama bin Laden?'" He gestures at range after range of mountains soaring...