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...glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...visual, here verbal: in long testimony during the trial, witnesses describe some of Jesus' miracles, sermons, claims to royalty or divinity. Happily fashioning a cat's cradle from the tangle of religious and secular politics, the movie pins most of the blame on the Romans, whose second in command tells his soldiers, "Be sure that it is technically the Jews who make the arrest, and that he is brought to the house of the high priest." That's Caiaphas, played by Colin Blakely (who a decade earlier was Jesus in Dennis Potter's TV play "Son of Man," accused...
...room for a victory by a member of your so-called “weak field.” That reference surely comes from someone who has not yet seen House of Sand and Fog, because Shohreh Aghdashloo’s achievement as an Irani expatriate with a fragile command of the English language is about as compelling as acting can get. It’s usually difficult to predict this category, but not when it includes a performance this complete...
With a flick of the baton, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is under his command. But when he first came to Harvard, James Yannatos didn’t expect to stay here. After growing up listening to the Metropolitan Opera at the behest of his father, James Yannatos came to Harvard in 1964, expecting it to be a stepping-stone. “I thought, well, this would be a very nice parenthesis in my professional life. I had no idea I would still be here. The seductive thing was just the combination of working with students and making music...
While most soldiers are not compelled to such cold, calculating brutality, self-doubt and moral ambivalence are weaknesses in a place like Baghdad. It is the job of those who command these troops, the political leaders who receive the blind faith of our armed forces, to truly honor the sacrifices these men and women make. We must never forget that war is fought by human beings. If we are truly going to support our troops, we ought to feed them right and pay them well. Most importantly, let them know just what it is they are doing over there...