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...incident at the mosque appeared to demonstrate what a more experienced colleague told me: "The Americans make great liberators but lousy occupiers. They combine the ignorance and arrogance of American youth with the blood-lust of soldiers fresh from battle." I asked marines if they had been given maps, books or briefings explaining the different neighborhoods and communities of Baghdad, and they said no. Had they been given such material, or even simply accompanied, like their counterparts in Bosnia, by a local translator, they might have avoided that moment of tension. Indeed, properly briefed, they might even appreciate the significance...
...Central Station director Walter Salles, who just finished directing Mexico's new heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, in a film version of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries. That means less predictable storytelling. Even though Carrera's Crime of Father Amaro is a well-worn story of clerical lust and hypocrisy, its moral center is as inscrutable as Mexico itself. We hope the young priest Amaro (played by Bernal) will be heroically redeemed when he rejects celibacy; but that pat expectation gets turned on its ear. Devising an un-Hollywood ending, says Carrera...
...grew up sort of godless and in the counterculture, so I don’t tend to feel that bad about things like sloth, gluttony or lust. But pride is evil in my book and I struggle with...
...half-built Saddam Mosque. Less so in the south, where hardly any shops bother to hang the president's portrait. But people are still cautious. Even in Karbala, the heart of the majority Shia community, Abdul Sahib Naser Nasrulla, the chief of the biggest mosque, gripes about America's lust of Iraq's oil. "Will Americans accept it if Saddam Hussein wants to change their president?" he says. "Who gave the Americans the right to tell Iraqis that their President is not good...
...Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, officials say Jiang will remain as chairman of the Central Military Commission for several more years. Army general Xu Caiyou, whom Jiang just promoted, declared that his boss's continued leadership ensures "lasting political stability." Less charitable observers have portrayed it as a simple lust for power...