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...movie high jinks of a Turkish Rambo who single-handedly takes on U.S. forces in lawless northern Iraq are filling cinemas across Turkey, America's only predominantly Muslim nato ally. Valley of the Wolves Iraq, which is set to break Turkish box-office records, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even...
...props his mechanical limb on the picnic table so everybody at Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q can see. Then he rolls up the sleeve of his battle-dress uniform and points to the long, wide, nasty scar left by the explosion that took his leg in northern Iraq a year ago. People come by afterward to slap him on the back and thank him for serving his country. No pity party here. "I live by the theory of suck it up. Why be negative?" he says. "I can run faster now, and the chicks...
...takes an act of God to get it back on." Then, while people around us are getting barbecue sauce all over their faces, he relives Jan. 13, 2005, the night he was on a scouting mission, driving a humvee near a railroad yard in Kirkuk, the oil capital of northern Iraq...
...Time Board of Economists in Davos, Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, said that Europe "has a tsunami coming its way" in the shape of competition from Asian and U.S. rivals. Yet as old manufacturing industrial areas are hollowed out - think of northern Italy - there is still no sign of urgency among the European élite about how they might respond to the new world. There was more, of course - at Davos, there always is. Those wanting a sneak preview of a possible 2006 match-up in the U.S. presidential race could catch...
Hosting an event is not just good business; it’s much, much more. It can mean everything to a winter haven in northern Italy or a struggling Midwestern city trying to reinvent itself...