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...point man in the tribal area prior to the recent truce. After the Taliban's fall in December 2001, he helped fleeing al-Qaeda fighters and their families find sanctuary inside Pakistan, according to several of his fellow tribesmen. Mohammed observes an ancient, pre-Islamic code that exalts honor, revenge and giving sanctuary?even if it's your worst enemy who is asking. And for the Wazir, al-Qaeda weren't enemies; they were considered fellow Muslims fighting the infidel. "These al-Qaeda," marvels clergyman Maulana Hafta Khan in Jandola, southern Waziristan, "they love death like a drunkard loves...
...honors us with his presence tonight,” he said. “He brings honor to his alma mater, not just through the beauty he promotes but through the understanding and passion for art that he brings...
...Society of Publication Designers gave their highest honor, the Gold Medal for Excellence, to Arthur Hochstein and Cynthia Hoffman for their work on the Best Photos of 2003 issue. We also won two silver medals and seven merit awards that recognized the work of, among others, D.W. Pine, Thomas Miller, Marti Golon and Christine Dunleavy, along with picture editors Marie Tobias and Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz. Time.com led by Joshua Macht, won first place in Web photojournalism from the National Press Photographers Association for the site's Iraq coverage, most notably its feature "21 Days to Baghdad...
...Achilles' nerve comes in handy for anyone trying to make Homer's Iliad sing and swagger in a 2-hr. 40-min. movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...