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...find a strange mullah in their midst, preaching hatred. How did this hatemonger slip into paradise? Because of the Indian army, which has been in the valley to keep the Pakistani army out. Over the years, this army has left behind piles of junk: "Then one day by the grace of God the junk began to stir. It came to life and took on human form. The men who were miraculously born from these rusting worn metals, who went out into the valley to preach resistance and revenge were saints of an entirely new kind. They were the iron mullahs...
Director John Madden is generous and fair to all but one of the lead actors. As Catherine's father, Anthony Hopkins gets at the heartbreaking semblance of clarity in a great mind gone astray. Jake Gyllenhaal, as a student who beds Catherine, has the cagey grace to make us both fond and suspicious of him. Hope Davis is Catherine's businesslike sister; it's a cold hand, stacked against her, in a movie that exalts intuition, that sees higher mathematics as no less an art than Beethoven's, and commerce as a craft no subtler than accounting...
...best new artist this year, so get that other bull____ out of here"), a gesture made even more obnoxious by the fact that Wilson was as much a rebel in her field as West was in his (see page 66). In all, he acted with the maturity and grace traditionally associated with rap stars...
...Haugen decided he had to do more. On that day, an 87-year-old driver made national headlines when he plowed into a Santa Monica, Calif., farmer's market, killing 10 people. "I told my sister," he recalls, "'We gotta get going on this. There but for the grace...
...Jennings' soothing on-air presence and personal grace belied a fierce competitiveness and courage that NBC's Brian Williams, who took over Brokaw's spot last year, says makes news of his death harder to believe. Williams recalls sitting last year with a nonchalant Jennings on an airstrip at Baghdad Airport, waiting for a C-130 transport to Kuwait just a day after a similar plane had been shot down on take-off from the same airport. "He just sat in a folding chair, reading a book. He was absolutely in his element," says Williams. "Peter never lost a challenge...