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...came over the hill pretty ferociously and it jumped over into the centre of town where there's a bit of bush. I wouldn't hazard a guess how big it was. They had a hell of a fight to stop it. The heat had something to do with it but we think it was deliberately lit," says the local builder...
...Morel hadn't stranded his cast in dialogue scenes with lumpy rhythms and action choreography that has a low plausibility factor, I'd guess that Taken means to be a critique of a man as fascinated by his daughter's endangered purity as her predators are - and, by extension, of the thriller genre's obsessive hero. Back in the '70s, a cop film mined the similarities between the man with the badge and the criminal he hunted. That was The French Connection, whose wary sympathy for, and exposé of, the cop played by Gene Hackman won the movie...
What the next stage of the conflict may be is impossible to guess. There are signs that forces loyal to Nkunda are melting away in the wake of his arrest. But that still leaves myriad armed groups who know only the way of war--and who continue to prey upon the people of eastern Congo. It was precisely to deal with such disasters--and with leaders like Kabila and Nkunda--that in 2005 the U.N. World Summit adopted a set of principles called the responsibility to protect, or R2P. Intended to prevent a repeat of cataclysms like...
...BlackBerry that the White House was phoning him. As Melhem remembers it, "This man says, 'My name is so-and-so, and I'm either going to make your day or ruin your day. Would you like to chat with the President about 5 p.m. today?' I joked, 'I guess I can accommodate the President...
...Governor who? Governor Ra'ad? He never visits us. We don't get anything from Diyala province.' ... The Kurds provide for basic needs. If you've got good, clean water, predictable electricity, roads are being built, kids are going to school, and the quality of life is O.K., then guess where your loyalties and allegiances are going...