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...United 93”; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”; Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”Ok, this is ridiculous. Three 6 Mafia, the blinged-out rapping trio, has an Oscar, while the man who directed “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” and “Goodfellas” has never won. Scorsese’s recent “Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator” are admittedly not his best work...
Ambulance driver Hussein Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...
...wail of sirens follows almost every explosion in Baghdad, marking the progress of men like Mohammed to the scene of the latest calamity. He's been an ambulance driver for the past five years in a city where no job is safe, but where driving an ambulance is easily one of the riskiest professions. He long ago lost count of the number of times he's been fired on. Once, on Palestine Street, the bullets actually shattered the windows of his ambulance as he sped down the road. He's in it for the money, earning about $150 a month...
...Despite all the drama and danger, Mohamed says he never thinks about going back to being a cabbie, the job he held before becoming an ambulance driver. As long as the violence keeps up, this work is steadier. Ask Mohammed what his best day on the job has been, and he answers without hesitation: "Payday...
...hand withdrew before being caught by the glass. All the faces pressed up against the windows now (a nightmare through a fish-eye lens), and the fists beat harder on hood and roof and windshield, in a taunting, accelerating cadence: boom -- -- boom -- boom-boom-boomboomboom boom. The driver, a Palestinian whose taxi had the blue license plates of the occupied territories and not the hated yellow Israeli plates, gave the Palestinian V-sign of solidarity with his fingers (the gesture, seen everywhere in the territories, means not peace, as in Viet Nam days in America, but rather, ''We are here...