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...Even if we don’t answer our question, at least we pose it,” he says. “I want people who see this to leave and question everything they see.” Still, given the frustration and indignation that the film has sparked among critics, there looms the unfortunate possibility that this experiment’s main themes are too understated to effectively convey Johnston’s point...
...what might just be our VIP pass into the shitstorm?”. He has the mentality and combat skills of a commando, but the profession and body art of a hipster. Larson’s real physical courage is entirely at odds with his recurring self-conscious pose, pensively staring out from a Jeep while exaggeratedly drawing on a cigarette...
...Allez-y, allez-y, petite Americaine,” she orders, smiling at the irony of a little blonde carrying a 15-pound chain saw across the Vermont border into Canada. She knows that both I and my chain saw are harmless—that we pose no threat to national security. The chain saw isn’t for me, anyway, but for my uncle: during the summer, we’ll need fresh logs to fuel the wood-burning stove at our camp...
...Moqtada Sadr, which is particularly popular among urban Shiite youth, will participate. A Sadr spokesman reiterated this week that the movement would boycott elections as long as U.S. troops remained in Iraq. The Sadr group's capacity to disrupt voting in Baghdad and throughout the Shiite south would pose a significant threat. On the other hand, if Sistani perceives the poll as an opportunity to cement the claim of the Shiite majority for the dominant role in shaping Iraq's future, the firebrand Sadr could be persuaded to cooperate...
...which he seems to mean that the feudal states of Europe should have built a proto-alliance (of the willing) to hunt out the Ottomans when they were still just Balkan colonists. That’s ridiculous for two reasons: one, battling people who don’t pose a threat is a great way to over-expend resources. Should Europe also have allied to crush the Magyars, or the medieval Bulgarians, just in case? Moreover to suggest a parallel between the expanding Ottoman Empire and modern “Islamic radicalism?...