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...weary. His wife and only child, who is approaching college, miss him. He has monstrous legal bills. His unique bond with the President is under stress. His most important work is done...
...easy to see the appeal of the new laws. No one doubts that the police and intelligence agencies face a monstrous challenge. Penetrating terror organizations as formally structured as the i.r.a. was tough, even for Northern Ireland?born intelligence operatives; so much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before...
...reader versed in the “Western canon” who will appreciate the novel’s continuous literary allusions and the periodic surfacings of a meta-textual subplot about authors and readers. It is an anarchic zoo of people, events, and opinions swarming in the monstrous, beautiful, incomprehensible Mexico of the eighties and nineties. Though the narrator’s world is constantly on the verge of hysterical collapse, his storytelling is so magnificent that I only wish readers could follow Christopher, born. —Staff writer Laura E. Kolbe can be reached at lkolbe@fas.harvard.edu...
...killer,” and “evildoer” dominate the discourse on terrorism. In “War,” there are no monsters. There are only men and women whom circumstance and ideology have led them to commit monstrous acts. “War”’s protagonist is an American-educated Pakistani engineer named Hasan (Ayad Akhtar). Hasan’s brother is an Islamic radical and a terror suspect—American intelligence believes that Hasan may have information as to his whereabouts and possible terror plans. Rather than question...
...mystery in this particular film (though not one for long to any moderately perceptive viewer) is the identity of a monstrous beast that’s tearing through the town’s vegetable patches. This is much more problematic than it sounds; the local vegetable competition is coming up and every resident has poured their blood, sweat, and tears (and in the local vicar’s case, holy water) into their colossal produce. The townspeople turn to Wallace and Gromit, now head of the pest-control company Anti-Pesto, for the solution...