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...cartoons. Suggest that instead of toiling away in his smoky studio drawing mundane Tokyo street scenes, he might be better off investing in a movie camera and just filming the city in all its quotidian banality. Kon's response will start before you finish your sentence. His eyes will narrow, his lips will curl into a sneer, and with a quiet menace he'll recite the line that has become his mantra through countless interviews and film-festival question-and-answer sessions: "I'm an anim? director. I don't do anything else. People can take it or leave...
Yale—like the Crimson—also lost a narrow game to Penn, the Bulldogs’ contest decided by a single overtime field goal...
...Connell when the group endorsed her candidacy. “I love Joe Lieberman, but he’s not a woman,” explained C. DeLores Tucker, chair of the National Congress of Black Women, who is also behind Moseley Braun. These comments embody the same narrow-minded sexism the groups claim to contest...
...paradox of al-Qaeda in the two years since 9/11 has been that while the efforts of U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have battered its core transnational networks, al-Qaeda as a movement or an idea - as distinct from a narrow clandestine organizational network - has actually grown. Analysts believe the international intelligence and security cooperation has severely impeded al-Qaeda's ability to conduct highly sophisticated transnational terror operations such as the attacks in New York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures...
...more narrow and self-serving level, Bin Laden also has an interest in demonstrating his continued relevance at a time when much of the Muslim world's anti-American enthusiasms are inspired by an Iraqi insurgency led, on the ground, by mid-level Baathist security force officers supported by local Islamist elements. Bin Laden terrorist ego may be feeling the pressure to show that he and his movement, not the apostate Saddam and his secular nationalist Baathists, are the nemesis of the Americans...