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Kathy (Connelly) is a woman in disarray. She's a recovering drug addict who cleans houses for a living and--a fatal flaw--lets her mail pile up unopened. Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), late of the Shah's Iranian air force, is her opposite. He's got it all totally, tightly together. He has one job on a road-construction crew, another as a convenience-store clerk. And he is, by hook or crook, eventually going to give his family an American life comparable in privilege to the one they enjoyed in the old country. Specifically, that means a house near...
...Among her ignored letters are bills dunning her for back taxes on her home--the one she grew up in and loves passionately. The law appears at her door to evict her, and she spends the rest of this sad, curiously moving film fighting the county and fighting the colonel, who acquires her house, at less than its worth, by paying off the old taxes...
...among those who most benefited from his rule still ran deep. U.S. intelligence sources tell Time that over the past month they were getting better leads. ?In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people we?ve been hunting all summer,? said Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, the commander of the 4th?s 1-22 Infantry Regiment. ?This was the inner circle, and we were taking pieces out of it.? Last week they could tell they were getting closer and closer. ?Four days ago, an individual was captured that led to the capture...
...catch-me-you-if-you-can orange. A librarian comes around with books, and lunch is on picnic tables, family style. This is where the prisoners get to come if they are good, meaning well behaved and fruitful in their interrogations. "We try to sell this place," says Army Colonel Jerry Cannon, a National Guard member who in his other life is the sheriff of Kalkaska County, Mich. Military interrogators mention Camp Four to the prisoners, who get a glimpse of it as they pass it on their way to the hospital or elsewhere. It is one more step toward...
...prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about Yee's loyalty, says a military official, "he wouldn't be free." At the same time, concerns about security at Gitmo were raised again last weekend when Army Colonel Jack Farr, a top official in the group conducting interrogations, was charged with mishandling classified material...