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...Murder by Numbers--written by Tony Gayton and directed by Barbet Schroeder, and the best by far of the new bunch--Bullock's Cassie Mayweather is a tenacious sleuth whose strategies reflect a trauma in her own life. With men she's the sexual aggressor, jumping on her new partner and, when the party's over, literally pushing him out of bed. When she builds a case against two boys for a vicious killing, she wants to destroy the slick one (Ryan Gosling) who reminds her of her brutal ex-husband, and save the sensitive one (Michael Pitt) who reminds...
Unsavory characters as they are, the warlords have often served U.S. interests. But they are a slippery bunch. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Soviets from 1979 to 1989 but then went astray following the Soviet defeat. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Taliban, but now that the Taliban has been ostensibly defeated, it is unlikely that the warlords will turn in their tanks and rocket launchers for desk jobs...
...empower the powerless and shake the foundation of Israeli society, the bombings have proved highly effective. Presumably the Palestinians would be happy to fight the Israelis conventionally, army against army, but they have no real military. They have no tanks, no air force, no artillery--just a bunch of militias armed with machine guns and, if you count Hamas' illicit arsenal, some mortars and rockets. Israel, on the other hand, has one of the most powerful and modern militaries in the world. The asymmetry produces a lopsided body count. Since the fighting began in September 2000, some 1,200 Palestinians...
...Krauthammer thinks that profiling young Arab men at airports is an acceptable policy. But what if the attack on the Twin Towers had been carried out not by a bunch of Arab fanatics but by a group of Jewish extremists? Would that give us the right to profile all Jews or have them wear a yellow star? JAN VAN EIJK Regina, Sask...
...summoned thousands of presumably innocent men of Islamic origin for "voluntary" questioning. And now, with tens of thousands of airline passengers' lives at stake daily, officials are intimidated by a civil-libertarian backlash and are equating the threat posed by the very same ethnic group with that of a bunch of Irish nuns? Give me a break! RON VINOKOOR Takarazuka, Japan...