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...insertion of these famous faces does little to aid this faltering family film. Their roles are defined by sickly-sweet feel-good phrases that fade into forgettable nausea. The film is as fabricated and superficial as the miracle candies that save the town—but not the audience—from emotional apathy. Eclectic without being endearing, unrealistic without being fantastic, and strange for no other reason than to be strange, the movie is a helpless collection of disparate elements unable to come across as a cohesive entity...
Sexually loaded torment by female interrogators is the latest chapter in the prisoner-abuse scandals that will not fade away. This incident with the Saudi first came to light last month in a leak to the Associated Press of part of a draft book manuscript written by this TIME correspondent and former Army Sergeant Erik Saar, the Arabic translator for the 2003 episode. The leaked pages also described a civilian interrogator's habit of keeping a miniskirt and thong underwear hanging on the back of an office door ready to deploy in her sessions. The military has acknowledged some...
...with every made free throw by junior forward Matt Stehle and sophomore guard Jim Goffredo, the ghosts of Harvard-Princeton’s past began to fade, if not disappear...
...with the answers passes his days in Islamabad, his once peripatetic lifestyle now confined to the interior of his villa. A close friend says Khan's health is poor, and he is given to bouts of depression. Although the man may fade into obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid...
...promised the "swiftest possible attainment" of the criteria for E.U. membership - Tymoshenko says economic reform is still her priority. "Taxes must become inevitable but affordable," she says. "I want to say to people, 'Forget about paying bribes. Pay taxes.'" Yushchenko is confident that public doubts about her will fade; "Time is the best doctor," he said in Davos. People "must feel that life is becoming steadier," Tymoshenko says. "Once they acquire new opportunities, all the fears and confrontations will collapse like a house of cards." Still, some Western businessmen are uneasy. "Yushchenko will be flying around the world...