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Sept. 11 cast another shadow over the relationship. Vajpayee had been enjoying the glow of a growing friendship with the U.S. Washington liked the way he reined in his party's hotheads and diluted its hard-line agenda, and admired his skill at holding together his fractious coalition for an unprecedented three years. He had almost persuaded the U.S. to blacklist Pakistan as a terrorist state for supporting the Kashmir jihadis, while practicing admirable restraint by not retaliating directly against Pakistan...
...launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger. In case other Strellas have got through before or since, Israel's air-force helicopters are under orders to fly with massive floodlights trailing behind them whenever they are over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The lights glow at a temperature higher than that of the helicopter's engine, so as to attract heat-seeking missiles away from the chopper...
...strength balanced with a reluctance to exhibitionism. The portrait lacks details and the blue circles cloud our ability to connect with the eyes while making us more attracted to and curious about them. The obvious light source in the upper-left accentuates the figure and gives it a radiant glow. Hands clasped, the figure is at once expectant and relaxed, yet has a degree of motion or energy accentuated by the angled body which gives the sense that he is turning...
What strikes you most about Sincock is his smile: even in the few days after the attack, Sincock had a glow about him. "I feel blessed every single day," he often says, and it's hard not to believe him. He loves to tell stories of the people he has helped. He says he's now in that final stage of grieving; he is constantly flooded by wonderful memories of his wife. "What I'm trying to do," he says, "is to pass that way of thinking along to the others. If they can only get one-tenth of that...
...FAITHLESS This is Ingmar Bergman's third retelling of an autobiographical fragment about one of his failed, youthful love affairs. But this time he's added a darker layer of melodrama to his screenplay; Liv Ullmann has burnished her direction with a forgiving glow, and in Lena Endre the two have found a perfect new generation Bergman heroine--beautiful, strong and rueful...