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CASABLANCA, MOROCCO—Like all of America’s embassies abroad, the U.S. Consulate in Casablanca is a fortress-like compound surrounded by swarms of armed guards and a jumble of metal barriers. At certain points during the day, there are five different lines outside, each carefully sorted by a pair of bored bureaucrats...
...between Bethlehem's Christians and Muslims and the emigration of Hamad's Christian friends. Unmentioned was the unremitting pressure from Islamic extremists to purge the city of its Christian residents. Christians have been murdered in Bethlehem, families driven into exile and the Church of the Nativity used as a fortress by Islamic gangs. And all Hamad could bring himself to mention are the wall and checkpoints. Daniel Polish, Poughkeepsie...
...tensions between Bethlehem's Christians and Muslims and the emigration of Hamad's Christian friends. Unmentioned was the pressure from Islamic extremists to purge the city of its Christian residents. Christians have been murdered in Bethlehem, families driven into exile and the Church of the Nativity used as a fortress by Islamic gangs. And all Hamad could bring himself to mention are the wall and checkpoints. Daniel Polish, Poughkeepsie, New York...
...movie has turned Neville into a soldier-scientist (and former TIME cover boy), seeking a cure for the virus in the basement of the lavish Washington Square townhouse he has turned into a fortress (and where, don't ask me why, he sleeps in the bathtub, with his dog). So now he's Jonas Salk, and Jesus too, ready to give his life so that others may live again. It's in the last half-hour that I Am Legend imports new elements that both propel the story to its explosive climax and just aren't as compelling...
...outside observer, the laboratory can seem like an impregnable fortress. To protect the monkeys, all researchers and visitors must undergo a $55 tuberculosis and allergy testing before they are allowed inside...