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...York Times griped about the "outlandish" sight of Witherspoon doing a "grinding Indian-flavored hoochy-cooch, worthy of Britney Spears," saying it seemed "shoehorned in from another movie." The Hollywood Reporter praised such "Indian touches" as an "intriguing, fresh approach" but complained that the film has "too much plot and far too many characters...
...unbelievers accuse us Muslims of being terrorists because they don't have the guts just to say they are waging war against Islam." Of those convicted for their parts in the 2002 bombings in Bali that left 202 dead?three of whom, brothers allegedly at the center of the plot, come from this very village?the headmaster says this: "They are not terrorists ... they were trying to enforce Islamic law. They were people who wanted to teach the world that it was the Americans who were the terrorists and that Islam has international power...
...dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired the two to solve plot problems in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence...
...AFRICA GUINEA: Margaret Thatcher's son Mark is suspected in a coup plot...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...