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...People in Kabul were shaken by the string of explosions, and the streets were visibly quiet as groups of police and Afghan soldiers searched vehicles at major intersections. "Everybody is scared," said first lieutenant Ahmad Shah, a traffic policeman in Khair Khana who witnessed one of the bombs. "There is fear in the city today and you do not see many cars. It is because of these explosions, which show the weakness of the government...
...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...
...wasn't taking chances. During the three-year hunt for him, al-Zarqawi was a maddeningly elusive target--a master of disguise who could pass as a woman in a burqa one day, an Iraqi policeman the next. He traveled in groups of women and children to lower suspicion and frequently moved with ease through checkpoints in Iraq. Although military commanders believe they came close to capturing al-Zarqawi on at least half a dozen occasions in the past two years, few had reason to anticipate an imminent breakthrough. But military and intelligence officials in Washington, Baghdad and Amman tell...
...party as well. The third was composed of Horace Reynolds, the translator, George Palmer, the poet who published under the name of George Anthony, Gunther Neufeld, an art critic from Germany, George Burroughs, once the head of the WPA Writers Project in Hawaii who had become a Harvard policeman, Jennie Tutin, the widow of a former bookseller, and Edith, the original founder of what became the Starr bookstore...
...near-total absence of law and order, even military honor was rendered meaningless. On the morning of May 25, regular soldiers fired upon the police barracks in Dili for an hour or more, apparently in retaliation for what may have been an accidental shot from a policeman earlier in the day. The head of the U.N. mission in Dili, Sukehiro Hasegawa, says U.N. advisers negotiated a halt to the shooting, and the Army commander promised the policemen would not be harmed if they surrendered. "We then took these unarmed officers out of the compound and we moved...