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Nigeria: Wretched Excess Tom Pullo looks like a fighter. His chest is a barrel, his forearms are all muscle. Seeing him at breakfast at the Agura Hotel in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, a place favored by foreign oil executives, you might take him for a security guard protecting his charges. But Pullo works for the other side. "We are not taking hostages because of money," he says. "We are taking hostages to draw world attention to our plight." Nigeria is the oil giant of Africa. It is also, as an American diplomat in the region says, "one big problem...
...days, cutting off electricity and shooting holes in water cisterns.) When he was released, Omar was swept right back into the violence. One day, he remembers, he was throwing rocks at Israeli solders: "I was shot in the hand. My friend next to me was hit in the chest. He died, and I survived. It could have been...
...Jedi until Lucas changed it weeks before the film's 1983 premiere because he felt Jedis do not seek revenge. Fans frantically clicked their digital cameras at a display case that showed the evolution of Darth Vader's costume - for this crowd, the nasty Sith lord's chest plate changing from green buttons to blue ones in between Episodes IV and V is as significant as Picasso changing from his blue period to his rose period. Those in touch with their dark sides rushed exhibits of tortured druids on a rack, Luke Skywalker's severed head and the Princess Leia...
...film is mostly a flashback relating their affair. Like many movies once upon a time, and few today, An Old Mistress approaches romantic passion with a voluptuous seriousness. The Cannes audience giggled at some of the more intense scenes - as when Ryno has a bullet removed from his chest and Vellini avidly licks the wound. To each his own eroticism...
...tried to make sense of Genevie's death by holding tight to the notion that he was watching over his fellow soldiers in his last moments. It was a familiar role. "He was real big on Superman," she says. Genevie tattooed a red and gold S on his chest. When his parents separated a few years ago, Genevie stayed with his mom and "took over the fatherly role," she remembers, helping them work through their problems and get back together. That's why, when he died, she wanted him to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. "That's where heroes...