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...photo of New York fire fighters that commandos had packed in their gear to leave at their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage to snare Omar, but Pentagon officials said U.S. troops gathered valuable intelligence and destroyed a small-weapons stockpile at the airfield...
...where the outcome is pre-determined by the marquee (Did you really think that Bill Pullman was going to triumph over Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle? Or Cary Grant was going to let Ralph Bellamy win Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday?), the joy is in watching the pursuit...
...Serendipity, the pursuit spans over the magical movie period of “a few years.” Jonathan Trager (John Cusack) woos Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale), she succumbs (and what girl wouldn’t), she complicates matters by kookily insisting they need to be re-brought together by destiny and boom—after a series of mishaps, the happy couple is reunited at the end. Rarely is real life so simple. If you stop to think about the logistics of the film, both Cusack’s and Beckinsale’s characters leave perfectly lovely...
...Peace Prize summed up why he may be the world's best-loved political power player: He said he felt humbled, encouraged, and challenged to do more and do better. The dulcet-voiced U.N. Secretary General shared the award with his organization Friday, in recognition of their efforts in pursuit of a "a better organized and more peaceful world." And he will be an overwhelmingly popular choice...
...same time, the U.S. informed the U.N. Security Council that its pursuit of terror networks might take American forces into countries other than Afghanistan. A letter from U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, to the Security Council states: "We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other states...