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...view, the other, equally important half of the story. What emerges here is that while the Americans believed they were simply embarked on a noble mission to ensure that food reached the hungry, many Somalis saw the U.S. forces as intruders meddling aggressively in their country's long-running clan wars...
...Tang Clan...
From the 1940s to the 1980s, the Mitford Industry (as the Mitfords themselves jokingly called it) produced several best-selling books, films, a television documentary and even a musical by and about that lively clan. At the center of it all were six beautiful, witty and controversial British sisters whose friendships ranged from the likes of Lytton Strachey to Maya Angelou, Joseph Goebbels to John Kennedy. They had, in the words of their most recent biographer, Mary S. Lovell, a "remarkable energy, joie de vivre and self-confidence" that made them seem almost like mythological creatures. Yet as Lovell notes...
...Green is deliberately provocative. To persuade the jury that he has a loving family, he intends to bring his entire clan into court. With feelings running high in the case, Green needs all the support...
...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...