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...honorable sentiment. It's as if Will Ferrell were to play Hamlet. Not that he couldn't, just that the audience would be waiting for the melancholy Dane to go all giggly, strip off his black tutu and run naked through Elsinore. Similarly, Stone's admirers (and detractors) will monitor World Trade Center for some of the conspiratorial vigor he brought to JFK, or the loopy critique, in Natural Born Killers, of extreme violence and the mass media that exploit it and profit from...
When Jill Carroll - a freelance reporter working for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq - was kidnapped by a group calling themselves the Revenge Brigade Jan. 7, she was taken to a safe house where she sat in a room with two couches and an overstuffed velvet chair, and watched Oprah on satellite television with her guard. For the following 82 days of captivity, Carroll, then 28, was moved to six separate safe houses. She says she was treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore...
...announcement comes just days before the Christian Science Monitor begins publishing Carroll's 11-part chronicle of her abduction and detention - the first installment will be available on the paper's website Sunday night. With the help of Monitor senior writer Peter Grier, who offers a contextual narrative of what was happening in Boston, Washington and Baghdad while she was shuffled from safe house to safe house, Carroll recounts the hardship and, often, the irony of her captivity: "How do you channel-surf with the mujahedeen?" she writes at one point. Dave Cook, the Monitor?s D.C. bureau chief...
...Both the U.S. military and the Monitor refuse to comment on Carroll's level of involvement in the hunt for her kidnappers - the military says they are reluctant to discuss intelligence-gathering efforts and Carroll herself is fearful of any retribution possibly aimed at her family in the U.S. or her colleagues in Baghdad. But when she was released into Baghdad's Green Zone on March 30, Cook says, "she told what she could remember as a victim - not as a journalist - to prevent others from having to go through the same thing." He adds: "I wasn't there...
...According to Cook, the Christian Science Monitor had known about the arrests for several weeks, but wanted to corroborate the specifics before going public with the story. In a statement also released Wednesday, Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim expressed gratitude for the military's efforts and warned that "the daily threat of kidnapping remains acute for all." Carroll meanwhile has been editing stories as a full-time Monitor employee since the beginning of July, and continues to refuse requests to write books, give interviews or make speeches. "I don't want to be rich, I don't want to be famous...