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...evening last week a small crowd gathered around two men lying on the central divider of Saadoun Street an hour after nightfall. We stopped our car for a closer look. Both men had been shot in the head. One was plainly dead, the other bleeding from a bullet hole in his right eye and struggling to breathe. The onlookers merely gawked at the grisly scene, muttering "Ali Baba," Arabic slang for thieves. We didn't know if they meant the victims or the gunmen...
...dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does not neglect the darker side of human adaptation, either. As one corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet at a revolutionary demonstration. Another woman who used to flit round the neighborhood in miniskirts suddenly dons a full-length chador. The war with Iraq begins, but the cancers within seem almost as toxic as the bombs outside. Satrapi's mother puts up black curtains to prevent the neighbors from spying...
...Americans think that they have dodged the biological bullet, they had better think again. As the truth about SARS comes out--slowly, due in large part to government cover-ups in the land of its birth--it is becoming clear that what is taking place in Asia threatens the entire world. Epidemiologists have long worried about a highly contagious, fatal disease that could spread quickly around the globe, and SARS might end up confirming their worst fears. Microbes can go wherever jet airliners do these days, so it is a very real possibility that the disease has not yet shown...
...world, cops, criminals and civilians alike are incompetent, brutal or both. There are no bullet ballets, no climactic face-offs in dove-filled churches or exploding fireworks factories. Even if To's comedic ear occasionally goes tone-deaf (I have a hard time laughing at a cop stomping a teenage triad to the brink of death, which To plays for slapstick), PTU is a refreshing subversion of an entire Hong Kong genre of films that seek easy heroism in rogue cops out for justice and sharply dressed gangsters who live by the code. In PTU there is no code...
...Djindjic conspirators, face charges ranging from drug trafficking to murder. The sweep turned up new evidence against Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira, and shed light on dozens of unsolved murders. A special courtroom to handle the cases is being built in downtown Belgrade, complete with secret booths and bullet-proof glass. "Nothing was ever done so well in this country," says Rajko Danilovic, a prominent defense lawyer in Belgrade. Human-rights investigator Natasa Kandic calls the probe, "The first serious attack on the roots of the Milosevic regime...