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...espionage and counter-intelligence. Written and directed by Tony Gilroy, the writer behind the wildly successful “Bourne” trilogy, “Duplicity” delves into the grimy underbelly of the fierce competition between two rival pharmaceutical companies who hire Claire and Ray to pawn top-secret technological breakthroughs undercover. They’re going to con both companies. “You on one side, me on the other,” Claire schemes. “It’s perfect.” To ensure their future together, they devise a complex...
Observers expect the two American reporters now being detained for "illegally intruding" into the North will become a pawn to be used by Pyongyang at an opportune political moment. And with Pyongyang's internationally unpopular missile-satellite launch in the pipeline, analysts would be surprised to see the duo return home in the coming days. Pyongyang might also want to send a clear signal to other journalists that it won't tolerate any lurking around its border...
...Salvation Army has a devoutly religious mission, rooted in its founding in 1865 by an evangelical protestant minister (and former pawn broker) named William Booth, whose early motivation was to convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given...
...religious parties, she said, were making "economically and diplomatically illegitimate demands." The ultra-orthodox Shas party was charging a high fee: they want Livni to increase child allowances for large religious families and remove the city of Jerusalem from peace negotiations with the Palestinians. "I refuse to pawn Israel's future for the Prime Minister's seat," she said after meeting Peres. "The public is sick of politicking...
...procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable doggedness. It doesn't hurtle, it ambles. You will find, on the Internet, documentation about the Wineville Chicken Coop matter, and the criminality of then-Mayor George Cryer as a pawn of the Crawford mob, of the L.A.-wide corruption that makes Al Capone's Chicago a shining city on a hill by comparison. Eastwood is after just the facts, ma'am. Weaving all the true-crime elements into a film of multilayered, Chinatown density either doesn't interest Eastwood...