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...officer was dispatched to the Holyoke Center on a report of a minor dispute between two individuals. The officer sent the individuals on their...
...white-ruled Rhodesia; he also displayed the same aversion to political opposition and an independent media and judiciary. "Far from being polar opposites, I see Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe as two sides of the same coin," says Meldrum. "History is repeating itself in Zimbabwe." And he became a minor victim of that history; the last remaining foreign journalist, Meldrum was kicked out of Zimbabwe last year. Even as Mugabe grew into the habits of a dictator, he retained the support of fellow African leaders, who see him as a champion of "the black cause." Meldrum makes it clear that...
...clashes in Najaf. The government rushed to assure Iraqis that American forces would not enter the Imam Ali Mosque, and any fighting there would be done by Iraqi security forces. The problem was, U.S. commanders had reportedly concluded that the Iraqi forces in the city had trouble achieving even "minor combat objectives...
...have quite enough completely compelling incidents to sustain its considerable length. But against these complaints you have to set the linear minimalism of its structure and its blessedly low-tech manner. This is a movie where the cops interrupt the action to pull over the cab for a minor infraction; where, best of all, LOW BATT starts flashing on the cell phone at a crucial moment. In other words, this is a movie that manages somehow to fuse ordinary reality and more or less believable fantasy in a very insinuating way. --By Richard Schickel
...geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native...