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...Islam that accepts the Koran as literal truth. Concerns about the academy peaked in early October when Panorama, a popular tele-vision program, aired a video purporting to show the school's Imam and teacher, Anas Bayram, telling parents how to train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare for jihad. Bayram denies that he was urging violence, saying he only meant to encourage parents to ensure that their children are physically fit. The Panorama documentary contained some distortions. The program quotes an essay from an Islamic student praising the destruction of the World...
...visual effects (and copped from Raiders of the Lost Ark). But Zhao Fei's cinematography is ravishing, the actors bring heft and glamour to their roles, and the battle scenes have a clanging thrill to them. When the good guys and bad guys wage a group sword fight on horseback, you'll wonder why Hollywood ever thought it could get away with boring old guns...
...tattered Ramallah compound, his aides festooned the courtyard with streamers and draped posters of the grinning Palestinian leader on copper pipes left exposed by previous Israeli assaults. A motley collection of supporters--including Palestinian schoolchildren, a marching band and a dozen members of Arafat's Fatah Party on horseback--rallied outside the quarters, chanting Arafat's nom de guerre, Abu Amar. President Bush has declared Arafat a "failed" leader, the Israeli Cabinet has vowed to "remove" him, and Israel's Deputy Prime Minister has called for his assassination, but the 74-year-old is walking as tall as ever...
...craggy), who left the family to go live with Apaches for 20 years, is the only man who can help get the child back. And three ... well, The Missing (which opens Nov. 19) is a western, but Blanchett is no cowgirl. "I kept telling her, 'You looked great on horseback in Elizabeth!'" says Howard. "And she says, 'One shot, Ron. One shot.'" Maybe she'd prefer a throne...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW WESTERNS. "There were a million westerns with chases on horseback," says Shelton. "In our iconography, cars have replaced horses." There are a few differences: a city street holds more concentrated peril than the open prairie, and drivers can go way faster than cowboys. The horsepower under John Wayne...