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...group individual investigations under the direction of France's centralized counter-terror operation in Paris, which collated all the information police and intelligence services had related to the inquiries. Within 24 hours, officials had narrowed their scope down to a group of "autonomous anarchists" whose radical positions and increasingly restless activity - including protesting during a G8 summit in Poland last year - had led French intelligence services to place some of its members under surveillance...
...given Thursday night--the start of the weekend in Syria--Z Bar, the rooftop nightclub at the Omayad Hotel, is packed. An instant hit with Damascus' rich and restless when it opened last summer, Z Bar provides not only a place to dance on tables Beirut-style but also a commanding view of the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. "Top of Z Town" is its Pepé Le Pew--esque slogan, but everyone knows who's really on top in this town. From a hill above Z Bar, the glass façade of Bashar Assad's presidential palace looks...
...year-old former motorcycle racer from small-town Pennsylvania has this kind of effect on people. There's something about his restless enthusiasm and unpretentious charm that makes you want to hang out with him--and buy his bikes. Just ask Harley-Davidson. The hogmaker fell under Buell's spell 15 years ago when it decided to purchase a 49% stake in the tiny company as a way to attract a younger demographic to the iconic baby-boomer brand. Harley kept increasing its stake over 10 years and finally bought it all in 2003, even though Buell accounts...
...theory, Fireproof is as alien to me as Religulous is familiar. At more than two hours, the film will make those viewers restless who aren't utterly resistant. But there's something affecting about its artless earnestness, its aim to dramatize large portions of ordinary lives that most movies ignore. I wasn't converted, but I was charmed...
Despite the air of normality that nearly brought Yuri to tears at some points--like when we had our morning coffee outdoors in a crowded back alley during a stop in Amarah, capital of the restless border province of Maysan--the trip at times was undeniably tense. Our nerves frayed when traffic jams caused by U.S. military convoys brought us to hour-long standstills, and when an anonymous group of men pulled up to the gates of our Basra hotel late at night--journalists have been kidnapped from hotels in Basra...