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...standoff in Basra underscored a central dilemma facing the war planners as they plot their final assault on Saddam's regime: the longer the allies remain handcuffed by their desire to limit collateral damage, the longer the conflict will be--and perhaps the deadlier for coalition troops. "The war ultimately will boil down to how many of our soldiers we are willing to sacrifice to keep dead Iraqi civilians off al-Jazeera," says a Navy officer at the Pentagon. Defense officials say that as the battle for Baghdad is joined in coming weeks, the U.S.'s unusually tight restrictions...
...anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back in a low-hanging mini-ponytail, departs his Brooklyn pad for a job in Argentina, where he drinks in the local color. Duvall also directs...
Amidst the loud banter in the room, Kabala relates the nature of their relationship with an anecdote. “My favorite war story. Chris Matthews went up to Reagan and said, ‘Mr. President, this is where we plot against you,’ and Reagan said, ‘Okay, but after six, we’re friends.’ These guys may have been at a sit-in while I was dropping Salients off at Massachusetts Hall, but after six, we’re friends...
Carlson said that given Harvard’s checkered past with neighborhood, it should either leave the Mahoney’s plot untouched or create a park...