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...hurried inside to pack. "Look, even the Taliban are running." A Land Cruiser roared past, kicking up dust, heading for Pakistan. That same night, Barasna, in her early 30s, donned her head-to-toe burqa, or veil, padlocked her house and headed out into the night with her husband, five children and whatever provisions they could carry...
...educational-TV producer; from heart failure relating to treatment for lung cancer; in New York City. Trillin's frequent writings on cancer included a 1981 article on the relationship between patients and their doctors that is still used in medical schools. Widely known as a muse for her husband, humorist and TIME contributor Calvin Trillin--in whose works she often appears as a voice of wisdom and reason--Alice Trillin also co-founded the innovative PBS show Behind the Scenes, featuring Penn and Teller, designed to teach preteens about creativity...
DIED. SALLY RESTON, 89, journalist and photographer who chronicled women's lives in Europe during World War II; in Washington. She was a major influence on and journalistic partner to her husband, columnist and Washington correspondent James Reston; together they produced the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard from 1968 to 1988. They met in college on a double date, for which Sally had been matched with James' fraternity brother. "She was a Phi Beta Kappa," James Reston later recalled. "I was a C-minus student...
...doors and the crying of sleepy children. She peered out into the lane with its high mud walls and saw that every Taliban commander in the area was fleeing the city with his family. Barasna knew why. It was Sept. 11, and on the radio she and her doctor husband had heard about the suicide hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Now the Taliban warriors were afraid that an enraged U.S. would immediately strike back...
Without giving too much of the ending away, I can say that Together manages to stay touching, while steering clear of heartwarming predictability; the film condemns no one, not the selfish Lena, not Rolf, Elisabeth’s alcoholic husband; not even Frederick’s supremely bourgeois mother. The film tells a story about real people, stumbling through life, and the movie knows what the characters eventually learn: that one cannot be happy living behind the rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should...