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...roller-coaster ride that Hoyt will endure in that one day, as his idealism crashes violently against Harris’s reality, so expect lots of morality tales that question what officers should do when confronted by a sea of crime, or when their only option is to become brutal criminals themselves in order to be effective at all. The advanced buzz is that while Antoine Fuqua’s direction remains rooted in the flashy music video genre, at the very least, he does not get in the way of the mega-watt star power of Washington and Hawke...
...that he covers: His writing is the story of people and their fight to live their lives, whether it be preserving a centuries-old whaling custom or trying to live amid war and ethnic strife. Massoud fought so that he could live in his homeland as he wished without brutal oppression (the same can be said of the subjects of his essays on Kosovo and Cyprus), just as the Taliban soldiers who faced him across the miles of battlefield are mostly not Islamic fanatics but young conscripts who want only to go home alive...
...itineraries of many key Bin Laden operatives is enough to confirm that their networks have been extremely active in the Muslim regions of the Pacific Rim. And the pattern of anti-American protests in the region following the air strikes on Afghanistan - as well as some longstanding and extremely brutal local Islamic insurgencies with ties to Bin Laden's networks - suggests that Al Qaida has some significant support in Southeast Asia...
...under question. Some have considered it a source of undeserved power, and refuse to accept the privileged view of the world it implies. Others, such as Jordana R. Lewis ’02 in her recent column on this page, describe it as unequal to the “brutal, real experience” to be found outside the gates—experience whose brutality the past few weeks have only served to confirm...
Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) is brutal, cynical, corrupt and bad tempered. He is also funny and, when the mood is on him, strangely seductive. You know better than to root for him, but with Washington's hot-wired performance, it is impossible to root against...