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...miles of razor wire and tons of sandbag bunkers, contends that there's no alternative to a weapons buildup. "If everyone threw away their guns, that would be wonderful," he says. "But if the insurgents have guns and no one else does, that's not fair. We have to help people feel secure, and guns give them protection...
...Anderson and Noah Baumbach and animated, in gloriously anachronistic stop-motion, by Mark Gustafson. In his corduroy suit, Mr. F. is a woodsy gentleman crook, a raffish Raffles specializing in chickens. When his wife (voiced by Meryl Streep) becomes pregnant, Fox retires to write a newspaper column and help raise his underachieving son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman). Yet the artist in Fox yearns to pull off one last heist: raiding the farms of Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon) and two other big landowners...
...makes for an ambitious, sinister narrative, but often a disjointed and pretentious one. If it's not always clear what's dream and what's reality in the Village, it's also not always clear what's complexity and what's affectation in The Prisoner. And it doesn't help that Caviezel's blank, charmless performance gives us no real anchor or connection with his quest...
After weeks of gridlock, Iraq's parliament passed a law that will enable the nation to head to the polls in January for the second time since the constitution was ratified in 2005. The milestone agreement, which was brokered with the help of U.S. and U.N. officials and must be approved by the country's presidential council, paves the way for the scheduled withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops by August...
...Until the Kremlin finds the money to overhaul the system completely, Vyshenkov says a few cheap measures could help matters. For one, police officers should be required to wear uniforms embossed with the motto: "I selflessly serve the law." "It's not going to deter all officers from corruption," he says. "But maybe it will make three out of 100 embarrassed to take a bribe...