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...parents never planned. Ten thousand madrassas are teaching Islam to more than 1.5 million students in Pakistan, including young Brits. A militant in Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group whose activists have been responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan as well as the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told Time that Britain is now a fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda foot soldiers. "It's an ideal situation," he says. "The young Muslims over there are not happy with the way Muslims are being treated and want to do something about...
...mostly the roots of The Island are to be found in every (presumptive) summer blockbuster you ever saw, especially the futuristic ones--or decided, upon mature reflection, not to see. To give Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) his due, there's a certain wit and splash (or should we make that splat?) in his action sequences--nice stuff with a flying motorcycle and a surprise-filled sequence in which the leads are hanging onto a skyscraper sign that's losing its moorings. But for all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design...
...this spirit, Winslow recently imparted to a group of campers the pearl, “Wash you hands once a week,” abruptly turning and acridly muttering about “Sanitation: our enemy number one,” and “antibiotic resistance.” Perplexing moments like this one strop the razor of the unengaged summer mind to the acumen of the average I-banker...
...Robert Komer, a former top Defense Department official who is now a consultant with the Rand Corporation in Washington. "The triumph of the carrier was in World War II. We made the same mistake back then when we concentrated on battleships at first. The Japanese proved us wrong at Pearl Harbor." Senator Gary Hart, founder of the congressional military-reform movement, argues that the submarine, not the carrier, is the capital ship of the future, and points out that the Soviets have 300 attack subs to the U.S. Navy's 100. In a nuclear conflict, he insists, the carrier fleet...
When film fans dream of old movies, they dream in black and white. They think of Lillian Gish's Scarlet Letter emblazoned in gray. For them the true colors of Red River, Blue Denim, Golden Boy and Green Pastures are those shades of pearl and ivory determined by the films' cinematographers. And when Bogie says, "Here's looking at you, kid," movie lovers gaze at Ingrid Bergman in glorious monochrome...