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...Noyce has had his own war to fight. A while back, he got a positive reaction when he showed a rough cut of the film to his sponsors at Miramax Films in New York. The date of that screening was Sept. 10, 2001. Events in New York the following day changed many things; one was the studio's response to The Quiet American. In an interview last week with the New York Times, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein says he was told, "You can't release this now: it's unpatriotic." The company shelved this "movie about bad Americans" for more...
...solo album, Gold, including “When The Stars Go Blue,” recently covered by the Corrs and Bono, and the elegiac “Sylvia Plath.” Since Gold tends toward heavy production quality that is sometimes at odds with Adams’ rough-grained vocals, the solo live versions of these songs were refreshingly honest and vital. Adams also played an imaginative cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” and finished the set with a sedate “Come Pick...
Junior cornerback Mante Dzakuma had an especially rough day, getting badly burnt by Ferguson on a 15-yard touchdown pass from Razzano and then flagged for pass-interference to keep a second quarter Cornell drive alive...
Another contributing factor to the need for pilot retraining: Most new commercial airline pilots lack the rough-and-ready military-jet experience of their predecessors. And although pilots frequently train in ground simulators, many pilots argue that there is no substitute for the real thing. As sophisticated as simulators are in replicating emergencies, they still provide mostly visual cues. The Learjet, on the other hand, can provide the real G-forces and actual sights and sounds. "Ground simulators are like your kid's PlayStation compared to real flying," says an airline pilot...
...some authorities across Europe and Australia to decriminalize its use?has persuaded drug-policing agencies to largely ignore it. So, while opium cultivation is monitored to the acre, neither Interpol, the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention nor the U.S.'s Drug Enforcement Agency can offer even rough estimates for how much hashish Afghanistan produces or what the trade is worth. But around Mazar it's almost impossible to find a field where hemp is not being grown, either openly or poorly hidden behind watermelons or knee-high cotton plants. "Everybody's farming chaars now," says former Taliban...