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...film begins (after a Vietnam flashback, which shows how Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones became blood brothers) with an angry mob outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. Childers and his troops are helicoptered in to protect the embassy and, if necessary, to remove the ambassador. Childers saves the cowardly ambassador (played by an uncreative Ben Kingsley) and his family, and even more importantly, he rescues the American flag from the roof of the building. The next task is to fight off those dangerous Yemenites. Jackson becomes agitated after three of his troops are shot, so instead of focussing on warding...
...terror, which is murder with a message to send. In the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, when lynching became both a mass frenzy and a coolly purposeful instrument of white supremacy, you could send the message by postcard. Scores of mob murders were caught on film by newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across a postcard...
MADRID--Flying standby is a lot like finishing a LSAT review class--you wish a lot of good people a lot of bad luck in the short term. Take, for instance, the mob of teenagers in this gate area. Normally I wouldn't wish the Fighting Tubeworm Marching Band anything but a good flight and a massive change in the social hierarchy of American high schools. But today I'm on standby, and they've got all the seats. So I've spent the last half-hour trying to give one of them food poisoning through mental telepathy...
...over the American Medical Association report that Ritalin use among two-year-olds was on the rise? Is that really more egregious than the finding that nine-year-old Thai girls are being sold en masse to work in sweatshops in L.A.'s garment district, or that the Russian mob runs a growing racket that promises young Latvian women jobs in Chicago, and then abducts them and forces them into prostitution...
After a week of wild electioneering--and equally wild slips and slides in Taipei's stock market--the final tally provided an emotional release. "I am overwhelmed by the victory," said Hsiao Li-hsin, 30, a legislative assistant who stood among the mob that crowded the streets outside Chen's party headquarters. "I'm going to stay here all night and all tomorrow morning." Police had closed the streets to traffic for blocks around the victory party, which filled the air with confetti, firecrackers and the occasional outburst of song. "I'm going to sleep well for the first time...