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Asked by TIME about Mohammed's case, a U.S. military official in Baghdad replied by e-mail that there was a surefire place to check: the master list of detainees' names that every police station now has. Armed with this answer, Mohammed's brother Adil went to al-Jihad police station near the family home last week and asked for the list. The lieutenant on duty drew a blank, saying he had no knowledge...
...that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either. The director, Edward Zwick, whose Glory is one of the rare, recent triumphs among grand historical tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast, there is a handsome geometric austerity to the way Zwick and his director of photography, John...
Simmons and Combs have spawned imitators: rappers Master P and Jermaine Dupree have diversified, while execs like Shady Records V.P. Paul Rosenberg, who manages Eminem, and Mona Scott of Violator Management, Missy Elliott's chief operator, have sauntered out of the studio...
...unwinnable fight against a ban on late-term abortion, or as CNN gingerly calls it, “what opponents refer to as partial birth abortion.” Pleas for some kind of exceptions, as when the life of the mother was at stake, failed before the Republican master stroke of terminology, which gave new life to the old routine that liberals kill babies...
...security of the academics rather than the education of the young. So what are the radical reforms suggested by the present government that have been so strongly resisted by so many? They are essentially the harmonization of French diplomas (at levels that would become, essentially, a bachelor's, a master's and a Ph. D.) with those of the rest of Europe and a greater localization of authority over French universities, allowing individual universities more autonomy over their budgets. Modest proposals, are they not? But the force of the protests already has government backing away from them because for many...