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...sometimes Academy members look beyond the numbers and at The Man: Clint Eastwood, at 76 the industry's most active and cherished elder statesmen. The Japanese-language Iwo Jima has cadged only $2.4 million in North America (though it's earned a robust $38.7 million in Japan). No matter that civilians haven't roused themselves to see Iwo Jima. The Academy can't help loving that...
...hands of his henchmen and security forces. The true measure of his monstrosity, however, was not in any body count but in his subjugation of Iraqi minds. In February 2003, on the eve of the U.S. invasion, I visited a small village on the border with Kuwait. The local elder, known as Abu Mohammed, knew that when the fighting began, his tiny watermelon farm would be trampled by American tanks. I asked him if he was frightened. "Not of the Americans, but of Saddam," he said. "If I don't stand and fight, my entire family will have to answer...
...Mogadishu from the barrel of a gun. A naturalized U.S. citizen who became a U.S. Marine in 1987 and served in Somalia in 1992, Aidid succeeded his father, Mohammed Farrah Aidid, as leader of a Saad clan militia after he was killed in 1996. In 1993, it was the elder Aidid's faction that killed 18 U.S. troops in a bloody Mogadishu street battle made famous by the book and movie Black Hawk Down. Today, by virtue of the clan power structures that carve up this East African nation, the 44-year old finds himself Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister...
...months before the start of the war, I visited a small village on the Iraqi border with Kuwait. The local elder, a spry septuagenarian known as Abu Mohammed, was keenly aware that when the fighting began, his small watermelon farm might be the first piece of Iraqi territory trampled by American tanks. As he cleaned his ancient AK-47, Abu Mohammed admitted that it would be no defense against the world's most powerful military machine. When I asked if he was frightened, he nodded, saying, "Not of the Americans, but of Saddam. If I don't stand and fight...
...twosome have a symbiotic relationship would be an understatement. Oleg, the elder, is also the bigger and more garrulous of the pair. Kid brother Vladimir, meanwhile, is slighter and more taciturn, but quick with a smile and a mischievous joke - or an existential musing about the nature of their brotherhood. "We have often wondered if just one of us exists, while the other is just a figment of his imagination," says Vladimir. "Except," adds Oleg, "we never got to sort out which of us is which." That exchange is indicative of how the brothers work on their original and absurd...