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Turner is a model of the modern American officer, a wry, boyish-looking West Point graduate equally versed in the works of Clausewitz and St. Augustine. As he waits for help to arrive, he directs his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the battle chaos. "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy," he shouts into his radio. "Make sure they're carrying guns before you engage." The Air Force has responded to his distress call by sending over a B-52 bomber, which could flatten the entire village, killing plenty of civilians. Turner gets...
...opens up with a Mark-19, which fires grenades that tattoo the far ridge with puffs of smoke but fail to kill the insurgent. Meanwhile, the special forces alert the company by radio that three Taliban fighters are moving through the canyon so the soldiers should be ready to shoot. But the insurgents are beyond the reach of the .30-cal. machine gun. That night Lieut. Mark Stein sends out a patrol with night-vision goggles to explore the ridge where the lone Taliban fighter was seen. There's no trace...
...good name by discussing the mass killings of Armenians and Turkey's Kurdish conflict in an interview with a Swiss newspaper - carries a possible three-year sentence. (In practice, Pamuk is unlikely to go to jail and the publicity surrounding the case has embarrassed the government.) "No country can shoot itself in the foot," said Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, ruefully, "like Turkey can." The charges were brought by a prosecutor aligned with nationalist causes. "These people will find a reason, any time and anywhere, to be against this journey [toward E.U. membership]," says Güler Sabanci, head of leading...
Daniels is sweet. He recalls his squeamishness on learning that Anna Paquin, who played his daughter in the save-the-geese weepie Fly Away Home, had been cast as his sort-of love interest in Squid. When they had to shoot a short sexual encounter, he says, "we tried not to think about ... you know, geese...
...around and cross and uncross my legs again? Well, I guess everybody will have to pay their $10 to find out." But don't hold your breath for a trilogy. Says Stone: "It would have to be called Basic Instinct 3: It Depends, and they'd have to shoot it in a nursing home...