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Iran claims its army whupped the Taliban in a firefight Thursday; the Afghan militia denies the incident even occurred. But the reported clash may be part of a strategy by Iranian hard-liners to undermine their moderate president. "This clash is part of a struggle for dominance in the Islamic world," says TIME correspondent Johanna McGeary. Shiite Iran wants the Sunni Taliban to hand over members who murdered eight Iranian diplomats earlier this year. It also accuses the Taliban of killing Shiite civilians inside Afghanistan, and has massed 200,000 troops on the border to underscore...
...Baltimore neighborhood Pecker (Edward Furlong), who takes pictures of its benignly weird denizens, is regarded as a sweetly beamy pest. In the New York art world, however, he comes to be regarded as a divine primitive. You can probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue...
Many analysts believe Iranian leaders are simply trying to intimidate the Taliban rather than overthrow it. Clearly hoping to avoid a direct clash, both will make their case in the U.N. General Assembly this week. Neither side, though, seems to be in a listening mood...
Part hardboiled thriller, part sensitive melodrama, with tears for the ladies and gunplay for the guys, the novel borrows a potent narrative trick from Kenneth Fearing's noir classic, The Big Clock: Schwartz tells the story from complementary viewpoints that must sooner or later collide and clash. In their grief and remorse, the three lead characters start out locked in separate universes. Ethan, insulated in his study, ceaselessly revisits happier days while simultaneously dreaming of revenge, despite a father who drilled him in nonviolence. Grace drifts in an existential darkness amid her bright perennials, her spirit crisping and withering leaf...
...days since Chernomyrdin's re-appointment, Berezovsky has been just as busy. Chernomyrdin's aides say the banker has been negotiating on the PM's behalf with a number of Duma factions, including the communists, whose support is essential to the Prime Minister's confirmation but whose demands clash with the preferences of the tycoons. This time, supporters of Berezovsky say he would like a high post in the government for himself...