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...dangers ahead for a Middle East where political conflicts have for too long remained unsolved. It is conventional wisdom that Lebanon is the stage where Middle East factions act out their disputes. In the eruption of killings in Tripoli, however, Lebanon is just another player in a larger, unfolding drama...
...main drama in the Democratic Party this year has been the movement en masse of its voters, elected representatives and candidates toward a policy of withdrawal sooner rather than later from Iraq. This culminated in the past couple of weeks when three-quarters of House Democrats and three-fifths of Senate Democrats voted to begin cutting off funding for most combat operations in Iraq. All the Presidential candidates supported the plan, including the previously "we can't just pull out" Clinton and Joe Biden. So the candidates are together on Iraq policy moving forward, however much sniping there might...
...There's inherent drama in the coiling of tension as Mariane and a host of Pakistani and American officials track down clues about those involved in leading Danny into the hands of his murderers. This is essentially a police procedural, an accretion of small, agonizing details, rather like the recent Zodiac, which opened in the U.S. in March and is being shown in competition here. And since anyone interested in seeing A Mighty Heart is likely to know the awful outcome, the film also has an inherent lack of drama, despite Jolie's commitment to the project and her occasionally...
...worthy as A Mighty Heart is, it can't compete as riveting drama with Terror's Advocate, the Barbet Schroeder documentary also showing in Cannes. Like Winterbottom, but long before him, Schroeder has compiled an imposing resume of fiction films (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, Murder by Numbers) and documentaries (General Idi Amin Dada and Koko, a Talking Gorilla). His new non-fiction study is a biography of Jacques Vergès, a lawyer who defended some of the most infamous activists of the 20th century, from the terrorist Carlos the Jackal to the Nazi executioner Klaus Barbie...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.—It was drama worthy of the postseason stage. And when the curtains closed, when Pam Dreslinski’s high-arching fly ball stayed fair and landed far beyond the left-field fence, Harvard dropped its opening game of the NCAA Tournament, 3-2, to Hofstra on Friday in nine innings.The result sent the Crimson into the losers’ bracket of the Hempstead Regional in its first NCAA appearance since 2000.“I’m proud of how we played,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said...