Word: christiane
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...Lebanese government headed by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The Lebanese army launched its attacks following indications that Fatah al-Islam was setting up an al-Qaeda base in Lebanon like Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The group's provocations include alleged involvement in February bus bombings in a Christian enclave, recent bank robberies and attacks on Lebanese soldiers. Government security forces are waging a military operation intended to flush out the group's 200 or more fighters, which include Saudis, Syrians, Yemenis, Moroccans as well as Palestinians. Yet the bombardment of a Palestinian refugee camp risks broadening the conflict...
...Lebanese authorities have accused the group of a twin minibus bombing in the Christian town of Ain Alaq in February in which three people were killed. They also believe Fatah al-Islam members carried out at least three bank robberies, the latest on Saturday when $120,000 was stolen from a bank in the coastal town of Amioun south of Tripoli...
...Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days - a title whose meaning becomes clear only about halfway through the film - is Christian Mungiu's startlingly good drama set in 1987, during the end of Romania's Ceausescu regime. The burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabita is despondent...
...like to watch porn or read porn,’ So that’s fine—nothing at all could have disturbed them at all, drug use even...but to become a conservative Christian...they wept when I came home...
Clayton says he hopes to expand his own discussion of science and religion past the Christian tradition as well—to Judaism and Buddhism and possibly to Islam...