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...Asked if he will vote, one shop owner here says, "Vote for whom? All they do is talk! Ahmadinejad is a good man; at least he's not corrupt, but all he can do is talk! Where's the action? It's all slogans." A few stores down, a car mechanic says, "I'm not sure I'll vote, but I'll tell you that a lot of others here will. Do you know how many martyrs this town has given to the Iran-Iraq war? People are invested here. And then you have the candidates coming here and advertising...
...Bank Job” features a series of characters who at first seem completely unconnected but are gradually drawn together by the incongruous plot, which combines a bank robbery with a government cover-up. There’s Terry Leather (Statham), a small-time crook and owner of a body shop who has trouble keeping hired goons from smashing his car windows. Then we have Michael X, the hilariously stereotypical fist-raising Black Panther from Trinidad. He’s one of the bad guys, the movie tells us—can’t you tell from the Malcolm...
...sense that these works each reflect the life of a missing owner is brought home in an antechamber where five computers enable visitors to look up the provenance of every item on display. The hope, says museum spokeswoman Dena Sher, is that a visitor might "lay legitimate claim to the work...
...Tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday stroll to church. Ron Shank, owner of the Kansas town's General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in their basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, took shelter in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...
...Cold War - so military leaders can communicate and keep small crises from ballooning into big ones. But setting it up was a long and protracted process. Keating said trying to get in touch with his Chinese counterparts has been as difficult as getting in touch with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. "Sometimes you get him, sometimes you don't," Keating said. "It's as tough to get these guys as it is Steinbrenner." The hot line, defense officials say, should be up and running in a couple of weeks...