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...shores of Yemen had been bombed. In a statement purporting to be from bin Laden posted on a website, al-Qaeda praised the Kuwait and Yemen attacks. And in Italy this month, authorities arrested five Tunisians suspected of having terrorist connections. An investigator in Milan told TIME that the plot was the first sign in a year that terrorist cells in Europe were increasingly involved not just in activity like producing false documents but also in preparing new attacks. "They are not as strong as they were before Sept. 11," the investigator said, "but they are better organized than...
...allocate capital to investment-worthy projects has hobbled the economy. Takenaka's outsider ways soon alienated the establishment. Critics charged that he was too secretive and too radical, that he sought American-style economic solutions to uniquely Japanese problems?or worse, that he was part of a devious American plot to buy Japanese banking assets on the cheap...
...have to be explicit about the moral in the ending; that’s what I like about folktales. You leave with something there. There are so many children’s books where you finish reading them and come away saying, ‘What was the plot, what was the story...
...suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment...