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...course, in movies like this, stupidity can also be read as movie heroism. In The Day After Tomorrow, with the northern half of the U.S. population dead from a sudden attack of Global Freezing, Dennis Quaid decides he has to go on an Iditarod race from Washington, D.C., to the 42nd Street Library in New York to save his stranded son, Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Cruise went on a similar suicide mission to reconnect with his family in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Here in Cloverfield Rob decides he absolutely must save Beth, trapped in her midtown highrise, even though...
Many of the stories that Desbois has uncovered took place in remote, desolate country villages that today seem frozen in a bygone age; they still have little electricity and no indoor plumbing. On New Year's Day, TIME traveled with Desbois to the tiny village of Vysotsk in northern Ukraine, a few miles from the Belarus border. We drove for nearly eight hours from Rava-Ruska through the countryside in temperatures approaching -4 degrees F (-20 degrees C). In the back of his rented van, Desbois pored over translations of documents from 1944 when Soviet officials went to Vysotsk...
Tuesday's car bomb attack on U.S. embassy vehicle in northern Beirut was relatively ineffective by today's gruesome standards of political violence: The blast killed four people and wounded 20, but none of the American diplomats who were its presumed targets was harmed. Even so, as the first attack targeting U.S. officials in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990, the bombing will send a nervous shudder through the small but growing American community in Beirut...
...however, a federal judge in San Francisco has cleared the way for a dramatic challenge to the constitutionality of the VA's claims system. Judge Samuel Conti of the Northern District of California ruled that the administrative system is not "adequate" for reviewing claims of organizations suing on behalf of a broad class of veterans (the class-action lawsuit was filed in July by two veterans organizations). Nor is that bureaucratic process empowered to grant the kind of relief sought by the veterans groups: systemic changes in the VA's processing of disability claims, strengthened rights of individual veterans...
...military officials have touted a recent drop in overall violence in Iraq owing in part to the arrival of 30,000 additional troops last year. In December, according to military statistics, civilian deaths were down by 75%. But a series of attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq in recent weeks have left many wondering whether the worst of the killing is really over. U.S. officials say it's too soon to tell whether the latest violence in Iraq represents a trend that could undo some of the security gains seen in recent months. Hertling warned, however, that extremists in Iraq...