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...Afternoon (the title is from a Federico Garc?a Lorca poem about the death of a bullfighter) is set after the Taliban's fall, when women have won the right to schooling but many men aren't happy about it. A young woman, Noqreh (Agheleh Reza?e), has heard the siren call of modernity?women of Afghanistan, throw off your burqas and slip into that darling pair of white shoes you've been hiding! Noqreh does just that after her theologically strict father drops her off at school...
When you've been camped in the Kuwait desert for weeks, even dodging incoming SCUD missiles can become routine. Late Thursday morning air raid sirens blasted the 101st Airborne's Camp Pennsylvania. Seconds later every soldier in camp was wearing a chemical protective mask and scurrying to one of the concrete bunkers scattered around the camp. There they rested, many of them panting after the exertion of a full out sprint in chemical gear, until the all clear siren sounded some fifteen minutes later...
...attempts to circumvent the decision-making role of Congress in doing so. The cynical might suspect the administration of waiting for an opportune time—a war with Iraq, perhaps?—to spring PATRIOT II onto a public clamoring for safety and receptive to its siren song of security at any price. Were there less time for measured debate and more pressing calls for action, such a maneuver might well have succeeded. But now is not such a time. The provisions of PATRIOT II, so fortuitously brought to light, must now be carefully scrutinized. Our desire...
Sept. 11 has most of all changed our feelings about disaster. We have a national security warning system now, a sort of mute, color-coded air raid siren, to further undermine our sense of security. And this formal ordering of fear has been supplemented by slippery rumors of attacks. My family goes to New York City for Thanksgiving every year, but this year—because my aunt knows someone who knows someone who heard that someone was planning an attack on shopping centers—we won’t be going to the post-Thanksgiving sales...
...tougher for actresses, who might be quickly and permanently typecast once they had bared all, and for whom Cat III was not so much a calling card for stardom as a brand of shame. Yet Loletta Lee could go from teen cutie (in ?Shanghai Blues?) to sex-film siren (in the Cat III ?Sex and Zen II?) to a Best Actress citation from the Hong Kong Film Awards (for Ann Hui?s ?Ordinary Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong Kong movie debut snogging in the buff with...