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...apparent bid to remedy the shortage of shrill outrage in this country, everybody has suddenly decided to get mad at actresses for smoking. At a press conference in Cannes, NICOLE KIDMAN bummed a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgaard and lit up, prompting criticism from antismoking groups. Meanwhile, Fox 5 News in New York City "caught" BRITNEY SPEARS smoking at a Manhattan club; a group called Smoke Free Movies ran a full-page ad in the New York Times screeching at JULIA ROBERTS to stop smoking onscreen; and earlier this month there was a kerfuffle when snapshots of a topless...
...vehicle, a Dodge pickup loaded with explosives, followed close behind. It barreled into a central area and exploded between two five-story buildings. At the nearby al-Hamra complex, two other explosives-laden vehicles were detonated near a pool where a party was in progress. By the time the smoke cleared from the three assaults last Monday, 34 were dead, and 200 more were wounded. The dead included nine Americans and nine of the assassins...
Baghdad nights are full of menace. The smoke of looted, burning buildings turns the sunset blood orange. Once darkness falls, tracer fire arcs across the sky like red fireworks. It's dazzling but dangerous. One recent salvo came down on a gasoline tanker, setting off an explosion that killed a man and injured several others...
...When the smoke had cleared and the wreckage and bodies were being carted away, stunned Moroccans turned their attention to another casualty of the May 16 Casablanca terrorist bombings: the nation's sense of itself. Morocco has long tried to occupy a middle ground between its European and North American allies on one side and the conservative, Islam-dominated societies of fellow Arab countries. Now Moroccans fear they may have the worst of both worlds: the strain of jihadist militancy rooted in the affluent nations of the Middle East, and the vast, economically stricken populations from which al-Qaeda networks...
...adrift in earnestness one moment, and then alight with brutal realism the next. From a hotel room in Austin, Texas, she marvels at the open-mindedness of the Americans who have come to hear her on a promotional tour. Her biggest problem so far is caused by the smoking restrictions. In Iran, she learned that the more forbidden something was, the more she craved it. "So I smoke 10 times as much in America," she says. Later, in less sunny tones, she sums up her rebuttal of President Bush's rhetoric toward Iraq and Iran. "What I would like...