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...Secret Sunshine. That's the literal Chinese translation for Miryang, a town to which the thirtysomething widow Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) has retreated with her young son Jun. In Miryang, people are friendly and compulsively helpful, especially a garage mechanic (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) who is clearly, clumsily smitten by Shin-ae. She needs all the help she can get when another tragedy befalls her. She joins a Christian fellowship and indulges the mechanic's devotion. But her mind and spirit spiral into disarray as her behavior becomes more destructive and self-destructive...
...profile of Palestinian women suicide bombers is emerging. Male suicide bombers tend to be introverts, the women less so. The women are older and better schooled than their male counterparts. Whereas the men are usually in their late teens and early 20s with scant education, studies carried out by Shin Bet, the Israeli version of the FBI, on 67 women recruited to become suicide bombers from 2002 to 2005 found that 33% were college graduates and an additional 39% had finished high school...
...women martyrs--willing or not--it is remarkable that suicide attacks against Israelis have been so infrequent in recent years. In March 2002, for instance, militants carried out twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas...
...While Volpe has been injury-free since his recovery from his broken foot, Conroy has not been so lucky. The heavy stress of running took its toll on his legs, causing shin splints. Despite that, Conroy is ready for the Marathon...
...vowed to press on, but contenders for his chair are already positioning themselves for a run at the top spot. Rivals in his own Kadima party include Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Housing Minister Meir Sheetrit. A former Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, and a former head of the Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon, who now serves in the Knesset, are angling to take the top spot in the Labor Party from Amir Peretz, Olmert's coalition partner and his disastrous and unpopular choice as defense minister. And at the head of the line is Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, another former...