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Anna needs all these mandatory intimacies because she can't read her heart nearly as well as the dullest member of the audience can. And that's because, in this sort of rom-com, smart working women are real-world idiots, and need infusions of soul by moving to a different culture where people know how to live. Girls - they're stupid! Now of course, the guys in modern movie comedies are often dense or boorish, but the men in the audience cheerfully identify with them. They look at the jerks in The Hangover and, smilingly, say, Yep, that...
...that a hard thing to deal with? Yeah, it is. You know what? It's an age-old problem in this business. You can get bitter, and you can get angry, and you can be mad about the reality, but it exists and I do my best to sort of take as good care of myself as I can. I'm 42 years old, and there are certain things I can't control. The challenge is to try and look great, yes, but also to try and transcend the problem and bring other facets of my personality to the table...
...former official. But spies are, by nature, paranoid, and there will be suspicion now that any new and even some trusted sources are "dangles" - that is, double agents working for al-Qaeda. This could cripple future operations. "People tend to get very cautious in a hurry when this sort of thing happens," says Bob Baer, a former covert operator. "Remember, [James] Angleton tore the place apart looking for Soviet moles." (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...
...That's why managing expectations down seems a sensible step. Perhaps, if the U.S and its allies play their cards right, with a regional plan to expand economic development in Yemen and coordinate security, the sort of disaster seen in Afghanistan and Somalia can be avoided. "We've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends," says Christopher Boucek, an associate in the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Yemen's problems are really unsolvable. But you can reduce the impact that they will have, make them less bad and increase the chances...
...Perhaps not, but security experts in Europe - sympathetic to the task their American peers face - say that it may be understandable. One of the reasons U.S. authorities may have missed clues or not properly examined them in the Abdulmutallab case is that they are forced to sort through a massive tide of intelligence on a daily basis, two experts tell TIME. They note that the warnings about Abdulmutallab came from varying sources - including CIA intercepts in Yemen and the U.S. embassy in Nigeria - and were sent to different U.S. security organizations. Connecting the dots becomes more difficult when multiple streams...