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...weeks after the shooting, the Australian military flew in a group of reporters for a controlled visit to Tarin Kowt; on Oct. 5 it was announced that Australian and Afghan troops had captured a notorious Taliban bomb-maker. The publicity may have shored up Australians' enthusiasm for the Afghanistan mission, but it has yet to penetrate the mud-walled forts of Oruzgan's tribal chiefs, whose support is now needed more urgently than ever...
Does Roger-Leo conquer the evildoers? We'll never tell. But as for Body of Lies conquering the audience, demonstrating that a film can be true to knotty issues of counterterrorism and still lure the masses with updated spy-movie thrills: mission ... well, nearly but not quite accomplished...
...jeopardy. Here Ferris falls for a Jordanian nurse, Aisha (Golshifteh Farahani). In a movie like this, a love interest has two functions: eye candy for contrast and sympathy, hostage bait for the plot. (Yes, Mr. Ferris, you may kill many and risk your own life for your mission. But what if I told you we were going to, heh heh, rough up your girlfriend...
...written by generals and veterans of war and…performed by soldiers and soldiers in training and watched by them as well–would provide healing.” The students hope that “Ajax in Iraq” will further this same mission of healing. “One thing that we found is that even though many of us in our society are very withdrawn from the war, we’re all connected to it, some much more than others, but it’s something that weighs on us in society...
...then-President Lawrence H. Summers established the Minority Portrait Project, endowed with $100,000 and the mission to reflect Harvard’s diversity in the works that hang on its walls...