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Acting quality is particularly crucial in films whose primary purpose is to narrate the life of their protagonist—particularly if he or she is a publicly familiar figure. The stakes are much higher for actors attempting to portray people with whose mannerisms, voice and appearance the audience is familiar with—but higher stakes mean higher potential rewards for viewers...
...Taliban likes to portray itself as just, resolute and pure. But accounts coming out of Kabul these days depict it in a very different light--as corrupt, abusive and, with expectations of a U.S. attack mounting, increasingly vindictive. Dust-caked refugees fleeing the capital say streets are sealed off and soldiers go from house to house, press-ganging men of military age. "There is a jihad against the Americans going on. Why aren't you fighting?" the Taliban asked Kandaqa, a worker from Kabul, last week. He pledged his house as surety, then collected his family and fled across...
...reading last week, Junger said he had originally hoped the book would portray real heroes and discount the harrowing tales of thrill-seekers and those who participate in extreme sports. “The fact that someone can free-solo a rock face or balloon half-way around the world is immensely impressive, but it’s not strictly necessary. And because it’s not necessary, it’s not heroic. Society would continue to function quite well if no one ever climbed another mountain,” he writes...
...America's war on terrorism. That's when the Muslim faithful from Jakarta to Jersey City will emerge from their mosques having been given spiritual guidance - guidance on what Washington deems a war on terrorists who defile Islam, but what America's enemies are doing their best to portray as an attack on the universal Muslim "ummah" - the global community of believers which, like NATO, is inclined to believe that an injury to one is an injury...
...possibly violence, but the rewards?the end of international sanctions, debt relief, millions of dollars in aid for refugees?could mean legitimacy abroad and perhaps, eventually, something approaching stability at home. Musharraf's acquiescence was, of course, a disappointment to long-standing rival India, which is anxious to portray Pakistan as a hotbed of extremism and worried about signs of budding fanaticism within its own 150 million-strong Muslim population. On Friday, India's main Islamic cleric, Syed Ahmad Bukhari, said that if the "ulema announce jihad, it is obligatory for each and every Muslim to support...