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...next decade most of his former clients stopped hiring. Baghdad was probably the last place he was welcome, or at least tolerable. Reports in the Arab press in recent years suggest he'd gone there to die. Or finish dying. But others wonder whether Saddam was using Nidal's skill and experience for his own nasty purposes. The speculation will intensify in the weeks ahead. But the Palestinian mass-killer's untimely demise suggest the questions won't be answered any time soon - which may be exactly what Baghdad intended by sending its secret police to his home...
...given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection with its melodramatic second half...
...perception that Americans are shallow, frivolous and decadent, it's a bit unsettling that TIME would devote eight pages to a puff piece about the cosmetic contributions to humanity made by Tom Cruise--a man so dedicated to acting that he is willing to learn the remarkable skill of blowing a single underwater bubble with one nostril. How impressive! MARK BRUNER Chippewa Lake, Ohio...
...Ichiro's at bats are clinics in working over a pitcher: stretch, shirt tug, foul, foul, foul, flare to left center. With his maddening skill at making contact, it's nearly impossible to fire three pitches past Ichiro. When he dives after a curveball in the dirt, as Zito induces him to do in his first at bat, "I can't really pat myself on the back," Zito says. He figures Ichiro just made a rare mistake...
...statement, Summers praised Cuno “as an eminent curator and an institutional leader of skill and intelligence...