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...isn’t sure whether he wants to go back to his high school over Thanksgiving break. “There are a few teachers I’d like to see, but it would just be so weird,” he reflects...Mira F. Leonard ’05 got a huge kick out of last week’s Callbacks concert. “It was great,” she remarks...Will C. Benstein ’03 wishes they had cheddar cheese in the dining hall everyday. “That...
...Sopranos” and all these people leave these shows that are clearly as good as it gets. Also, what happens to all those people that really make a splash and just don’t happen, like Rebecca deMornay and Treat Williams and Sherilynn Fenn and Mira Sorvino and Alicia Silverstone—all the next big things who choose bad roles and it all falls apart. Why does that happen? What does Gwyneth Paltrow know that they don’t? I mean, she’s very talented, but also she picks good parts. All these other...
...militants occupying swaths of the region's steamy jungle terrain. In Indonesia the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 left the world's most populous Islamic country in a state of turmoil and turned it into a fertile breeding ground for potential al-Qaeda terrorists. Al-Faruq married Mira, the daughter of a former Islamic activist, and linked up with an Indonesian businessman named Agus Dwikarna, who was active in the Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI). A purportedly nonviolent political organization, the MMI was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir--the Indonesian cleric also believed to be the spiritual leader...
...been living near Dwikarna in Makassar, in South Sulawesi province, but because of his poor language ability, he never managed to acquire an Indonesian passport. In mid-2001, immigration authorities detained al-Faruq temporarily and prepared to deport him. Al-Faruq skipped town, heading to Cijeruk with Mira and their baby daughter. After Sept. 11 he stayed in contact with Abu Zubaydah during the U.S. military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions...
...Still, the dominant mood in 11'09"01 is finger-pointing. The contribution by India's Mira Nair documents the agony of a Muslim boy in Brooklyn accused of conspiring with terrorists when he had actually gone to ground zero in a rescue effort. Several of the pieces?set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic)?make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these...