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...event here is a simple act of generosity: a Japanese man (Kôji Yakusho), on a hunt in Morocco, gives his local guide his Winchester rifle as a present. The guide sells the gun to a goatherd, who entrusts it to his two pre-teen sons to keep jackals away from the herd. The younger son, Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), a better shot with a more reckless disposition, tests the rifle's shooting distance by taking thoughtless aim at a bus on the road below their mountain redoubt. He fires, critically wounding one of the tourists inside...
...military sources in Iraq as enemy combatants. As TIME reported earlier, eyewitnesses cast doubt on the military's claim, saying four of the Iraqis had been pushed into a closet, then shot. Military sources deny the victims had been in a closet and said one had had a gun while another had "seemed" to be reaching...
...assaults. On April 24, mortars begin crashing down on the compound, and the shuddering impacts force the grunts to take cover in their rooftop bunkers. From an alley in the northeast, an insurgent fires a rocket-propelled grenade that slams a wall along the narrow mouth of a sandbagged gun pit. Shards of hot metal penetrate the opening, hitting Corporal Jonathan Wilson. Blood pours down his neck. "Corpsman up, corpsman up," he cries--asking for a medic to head to the roof. He runs downstairs and collapses into the arms of a sergeant...
Bono has Africa. Coldplay has global poverty. MOBY is fighting for your right to ... surf the Web. Along with like-minded artists such as R.E.M. and some improbable partners like the Gun Owners of America, the techno-musician has joined the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, whose object is to preserve so-called Net neutrality. That would keep broadband providers from charging premiums to content providers (like Google or MySpace) for faster connections, which could limit consumer access to some sites. "If Congress guts Net neutrality," says Moby, "independent sites would be choked off, and the Internet will become a private toll road...
...first short-story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, religious themes are everywhere in The Royal Ghosts. Through them Upadhyay reveals the universal in the apparently exotic. In The Weight of a Gun, a mother of a mentally ill son consults a clairvoyant believed to be possessed by a goddess. But in Upadhyay's telling, this hardly seems odd. He pares down the extraneous bits to reveal the characters' underlying humanity, rendering clear the woman's reasoning?she is simply trying everything she can to save...