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...church-threatening secret--is obviously not reflective of the real-life organization (although author Dan Brown's website states the portrayal was "based on numerous books written about Opus Dei as well as on my own personal interviews"). Yet in casting the group as his heavy, Brown was as shrewd as someone setting up an innocent man for a crime. You don't choose the head of the Rotary. You single out the secretive guy at the end of the block with the off-putting tics, who perhaps has a couple of incidents in his past that will hinder...
...down from 66% when the first substantive military mission was sent there in February 2002. (An earlier contingent of Canada's secretive special-forces unit, JTF2, arrived in late 2001.) Canada's subsequent participation in the ISAF force based in Kabul was regarded as a piece of shrewd North American gamesmanship: former PM Jean Chr?tien, who had angered Washington with his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, was able to claim that Canada's Afghanistan commitment made it impossible to send Canadian soldiers elsewhere in the Middle East. Since then, including this month's toll, 10 Canadian soldiers...
...Hamas is also playing a shrewd diplomatic game by touting Iran's readiness to fill the fiscal void. The statement Tuesday in Tehran by Hamas leader Khaled Meshal that Iran's role in Palestinian affairs should increase to make up for the loss of funding appears designed as a not-too-subtle reminder for those meeting with Condi Rice that cutting off a Hamas-led government will simply expand Iran's reach...
...THIS FAR: Because Oscar totally overlooked his performance in last year's Sideways. The Academy has a long history of making good on its mistakes by giving a performer a prize for a later, often lesser, work. But there's nothing lesser about Giamatti's shrewd, loyal boxing manager. He is as confident and engaged as Sideways' oenophile was dithering and in retreat...
...true, and because Clarkson has the kind of voice that sounds intimate and precise coming out of radio speakers--and because she is far more determined and shrewd than anyone has given her credit for--she has survived the blows that inaugurated her career and managed to free herself from her scarlet AI. Her debut album, Thankful, chugged to double-platinum status while the thoroughly enjoyable follow-up, Breakaway, has sold 5 million copies, spawned four Top 10 hits and earned Clarkson, 23, a prime performance slot at the Grammys this Wednesday. (If justice prevails, she'll also pick...