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...never saw the TV show, and I can't recall any of the films," says Sturridge, who hopes to have his movie ready for a Christmas release. "But the original novel"--Lassie Come-Home, written by Eric Knight in 1940--"was set in Yorkshire, and it had a certain prewar British integrity about it. In current children's films, you have to be ironic to reach the parents in the audience. It's a profitable formula, but this film won't appeal to one audience over the heads of another. It looks the whole audience...
...photograph taken in May 1858, only three years before Lincoln became President. He had just won a noteworthy court case in Illinois, defending a man on a murder charge, and marked the occasion by stopping by a portrait studio. What Deas found telling about the photo was the prewar freshness of Lincoln's expression and "a certain gentleness around his eyes...
...Sadr beat up several hundred engineering students in the southern city of Basra. Their offense: attending a picnic at which both sexes were present. Female students have been harassed for "inappropriate" clothing; a majority now wear the hijab, or head scarf, to school-a sharp contrast to the prewar period when Islamic dress was rarely seen on campus. "We see it as our duty to advise female students to wear the hijab," says Abdel Kader Ibrahim, 23, an anthropology student at the University of Baghdad and leader of a student committee backed by the Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential...
...President's daily brief. The PDB, as it is known, is meant to apprise the President of the latest, most crucial intelligence on threats to the nation's security. But the document, which for years has been produced by the CIA, came under much criticism during the investigations of prewar intelligence on Iraq. Now the PDB is in the midst of its biggest reform ever, as the new Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, takes over as its editor in chief...
With the White House's recent change of heart, critics have re-emerged to question why the U.S. is hanging its hopes for Iraq on a man who was not only convicted in Jordan for bank fraud but who also allegedly provided discredited prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and whose relationship with Iran remains murky. "I never understood why he was embraced so fervently in the first place," says James Steinberg, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution. But as the White House reaches out to Chalabi, the real question is whether he will return the embrace...