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...wreaking divine vengeance on his victims. He's meant to be pitied as much as reviled. In Unfaceable the killer - revealed fairly early in the proceedings, so I'm not spoiling much - is a young man (played by Joseph Cross) bereft over his father's suicide, and driven to punish those he believes responsible. Don't blame me, blame society. Sadly, this sympathy-for-the-devil tone permeates modern psychiatry: it says that every kink can be traced to some genetic mistake or childhood trauma. Can't anyone, in fiction or real life, just be a bad person...
...next day, suspected Sunni jihadists fired at least two rockets from south Lebanon into Israel, and hours later a roadside bomb exploded beside a U.N. vehicle, lightly wounding two Irish peacekeepers. On January 15, a vehicle driven by American embassy security personnel was damaged in a car bomb explosion. Three bystanders were killed - although the occupants of the embassy car survived - in what was the first attack against an official American target since the 1975-1990 civil...
...Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan by U.S.-led special forces and local irregulars. But in the past two years the Taliban have redoubled their efforts to get back their former power bases in southern provinces like Uruzgan. That has brought the ISAF into the area in force and increased the number of clashes - and casualties. In the past year, three Australians, nine Dutch troops and a U.S. soldier have been killed in Uruzgan. More than 100 Afghan civilians have died in the fighting, and some 1,600 families have fled their homes...
...have the resources to protect them. Some say the Dutch seem reluctant to leave their bases, but the Netherlands force - aimed more at reconstruction than fighting - lacks the manpower to do all that locals ask of it. Deh Rewood tribal elder Ghulam Farooq says lack of security has driven many residents away. "We could control our district if the Dutch would just send two tanks, one on each hill," he says. "Then we would fight the Taliban." Dutch commanders say they cannot supply tribesmen with arms. Instead, they encourage them to band together and provide their own security against...
...warning signs as the U.S., including an overvalued housing market. A worldwide slump would be a special concern in poorer countries, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Finance Minister of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank. Food prices there, she notes, are already being driven up in part by demand for biofuels, which is leading to the substitution of food crops by those that can produce fuel. If food stays expensive yet economies in Africa and elsewhere slow, there could be big trouble...