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What they miss is reality. They miss the Grande Allee, lined with bars and restaurants with prices that actually vary. This is a true Quebec hangout, filled with people who live in the city year-round, who parallel park their slick sportscars along the old roads. Well-dressed, French-speaking college students bounce from bar to bar in small groups as others sip German beer and eat pizza at the outdoor tables, just people-watching...
Forced to the rescue, a coalition of more than 20,000 allied troops carved out a security zone for the Kurds near the Turkish border. They also ordered Saddam to stop flying his planes in airspace north of the 36th parallel. The refugees came down from the mountains and tried to put their lives back together. But after most of the allied security forces left last summer, the Iraqis rushed into action to subdue the Kurds and their armed guerrilla units, the peshmerga...
...Saddam's discomfort, the rebels not only stood their ground but launched a furious counteroffensive in October, expanding their control far south of the 36th parallel and seizing the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah (pop. 1.2 million). Iraqi troops retreated in disorder, leaving behind long lines of tanks...
Several scenes in Chekhov's drama echo Hamlet. Director Ron Daniels chose to high light this connection by casting the same four leads in the roles parallel to those in the A.R.T.'s production of Hamlet earlier this year...
Four identically-dressed hijackers, each clad in a natty brown tweed jacket and tie and machine gun, control an entire train under the streets of New York. But the film's humor lies in the parallel it draws between the terror of being underground in the dark tunnels of the NYC subway system and the crowded madness of the everyday life above the streets...