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...dissecting Larry, Anna, Dan and the younger Alice (Natalie Portman) as they change partners over a four-year span in the London '90s, Closer is at first playful about the deceptions this handsome quartet of characters commit while falling in love and climbing out of it. After all, as Alice declares, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off." But if lying has a toxic residue, the truth can kill instantly. Larry, in interrogating Anna, casts off all pride to find the self-lacerating, the ultimate male truth. Was he better...
...like surprises for many happy days of hunting. You can get your head shaved at the barber's, pump up your muscles at a gym, grab a bucket of wings at the Clucking Bell drive-through and go watch the sun set over Verona Beach. How much crime you commit along the way is entirely...
...good feeling may last only until the next terrorist attack. While Abbas is trying to secure an agreement from Hamas and Islamic Jihad not to strike before Jan. 9, Israeli intelligence officials say the threat remains high. "There has been no change in their motivation to commit terrorist attacks," says an Israeli intelligence official. "It's still 100%." --By Romesh Ratnesar, Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein
...dissecting Larry, Anna, Dan and Alice as they change partners over a four-year span in the London of the '90s, "Closer" is initially playful about the deceptions this handsome quartet of characters commit while falling in love and, later, climbing out. After all, as Alice declares, "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off." But if lying has a toxic residue, the truth can kill instantly. Larry, in interrogating Anna, casts off all pride to find the self-lacerating, the ultimate male truth. Was he better? " 'Was he better than...
Still, Arafat continued to commit himself, at least verbally, to peace. He wept when Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who signed Oslo with him, was assassinated in 1995. He beamed in 1996 when he shook hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though the hawkish Israeli leader had sworn earlier never to take Arafat's hand...