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As you read you can almost feel Hosseini's range as a writer expanding. The Kite Runner was pretty much exclusively about men; Suns is largely about women--in the interest of authenticity Hosseini actually tried on a burqa. ("Just to see what it felt like," he says. "Nobody was...
Last month, the U.S. Army began constructing some 2.5 miles of concrete barriers around southern Ghazaliya. The area, a Sunni insurgent stronghold, is notorious for relentless attacks on American and Iraqi soldiers, and for the execution of civilians who cross the insurgency. Since the barriers went up - limiting movement in...
Julian Mitchell, an analyst with Credit Suisse, applauds Kleinfeld for sorting out the bad businesses in the company's portfolio but says Siemens--no matter who runs it--still has a lot of work to do. "The next phase is all about improving execution in the core areas of the...
Get ready for high-flying, edge-of-your-seat action. Director Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 3” keeps the adrenaline rushing as he presents the darker side of everyone’s favorite web-slinger. The story follows Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the...
There is nothing more interesting than to see the phenomenal juxtaposition of modern ballet set to old-fashioned music—and to see dancers finding the modern rhythms in that music as successfully as they did in “Bach Suite.” The pairing of Lauren...