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...Strolling in Golden Gate Park, Amir watches a pair of kites overhead and recalls his childhood friend and servant, Hassan, who is a Hazara, one of Afghanistan's persecuted minorities. The boys are inseparable, but their friendship is fraught with tension. Amir is quiet, bookish and jealous of the attention his father bestows on the athletic, courageous Hassan. Angry and frustrated, he plays cruel jokes on his friend, guiltily justifying them on the basis of Hassan's low status: "Because history isn't easy to overcome. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, and nothing was ever going...
...group of bullies who make him an offer: leave the kite or pay for it with his body. Bound by loyalty, Hassan chooses the kite. Amir stumbles upon the scene and watches mutely, too cowardly to stop them raping his best friend. "Looking back now," he muses from Golden Gate Park, "I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last 26 years...
...eyes and a battered, gap-toothed mouth. The circular face of Marked Man (1935), painted in scratchy russets and browns, is a target scarred with black crosshairs. In 1936, Klee returned to his Bauhaus preoccupation with constructing colored forms, but with a more foreboding turn: In the small The Gate to the Depth, blocks of distressed color lead to a central black void. By 1937, Klee's late style had evolved into patterns of heavy black lines and hieroglyphs on vivid colored grounds. Sometimes the lines form discernible figures, as in the sexy Forest Witches, or the powerful Kettledrummer, with...
...capital. That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul. Reconstruction efforts are slow and troubled, investors are staying away and the barbarians are rattling the proverbial gate. Despite two years under U.S. tutelage, Afghanistan remains a failed state. It's not costing the U.S. much in terms of lives and treasure (the Administration even forgot to put money for Afghanistan into the foreign aid budget it submitted in February). But its prospects are looking rather bleak...
These days, though, it's almost as if the star is back in the minors. Costner's last film with robust earnings, 1995's Waterworld, was a chaotic venture ("Kevin's Gate," critics called it) and the most expensive movie ever made at the time. His last big western, The Postman, in 1997, was seen as a risible catastrophe by most critics (and by a few, like this one, as an ornery and stirring achievement). His last six films together earned less at the domestic box office than the Oscar-winning 1990 Dances with Wolves...