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...difference between needs and wants, and why Mommy and Daddy need to say no: Elmo can’t have everything Elmo wants, the family needs Elmo’s help. Above all, Elmo learns the importance of talking things out with Elmo’s mother and father...
Younger and second-generation Arab Americans may not be so reflexively opposed to intelligence work, but few would be willing to risk ostracism by their elders. "If I even hinted to my father that I was considering becoming a spy, he would disown me," said one young man at the dinner, who asked not to be named. "He would be ashamed to tell his friends that his son was working...
...Martin Sheen has only four short scenes - two of them seconds long and conducted opposite a fluffy white parrot (who had me at "Hello") - yet still leaves a vivid impression. He plays Burke's former father-in-law Silver, a retired Marine who is handling his grief in the most productive way possible: by showing up at the Seattle hotel where one of Burke's multiday seminars for the bereft is under way, to remind him that a) he, Silver, is not A-O.K., b) he thinks Burke shouldn't be either and, finally, c) just because Martin Sheen...
...Lebanese government charged him with fraud. All across the Shi'ite-populated regions of Lebanon, thousands of small investors - many of whom bundled small sums of money with their neighbors to give to Ezzeddine - feel betrayed by both the man and the organization. "I inherited $100,000 from my father to continue my studies. I invested them with Ezzeddine, and now all my dreams are destroyed," says Mohammad, a 25-year-old student from Maaroub. "I don't know what I was thinking when I invested with him. We thought he was Hizballah's financier." (See pictures from inside Hizballah...
...Pakistan's role in Iran's nuclear development has been more than passive spectator, however; Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb, admitted five years ago that he passed nuclear secrets to Tehran and Libya. The disclosures stung Islamabad and forced then President Pervez Musharraf to act against Khan, before issuing a pardon and confining the proliferator, who is still hailed as a national hero in Pakistan, to house arrest. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...