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...When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere. Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin...
...problem is that those dangers lurk in so many forms: incest, rape, pedophilia, molestation, exploitation, exhibitionism, assault, voyeurism-it's enough to make a parent's head spin. The American Psychiatric Association differentiates between pedophiles who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children and child molesters who abuse children for reasons that may not even be sexually motivated. While child molesters are largely male and fit a certain stereotype-social misfit, living alone, unemployed, unable to form adult relationships-pedophiles could be anyone. They stalk playgrounds and schools, identify vulnerable children and spend much time "grooming" the victim. They...
...wish they'd given Depp more to do. He enters the film quite late and, as usual, his performance is a canny blend of the minimal and the maximal. What laughs the films offer derive from his work, which consists of putting a kind of ironic, post-modernist spin on the antique conventions of the Yo-Ho-Ho genre. At one point in the proceedings someone asks of Sparrow, "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?" Good question and one that's easily answered. He's a very smart...
...step into the fray outside the mosque, people turn to us and smile. "Welcome, welcome," one bearded old man says, bowing his head. Fanning out inside a circle of spectators, the dervishes spin in frenzied circles, sometimes hopping on one foot or leaping across the dusty ground, their robes flaring wildly around them. Robed men circulate among the spectators - other robed men, women wearing the sensuous, cascading traditional dresses called thopes, and the odd group of Westerners with cameras - offering cones of burning incense for people to fan the aromatic smoke toward their faces...
...Over the past five years, Dadullah has emerged as the top operational commander of the Taliban resistance, uniting his fighters with a combination of charismatic media spin and a penchant for barbarism. He is thought to have organized the growing wave of suicide bombings in Afghanistan, and to have commanded over a dozen beheadings, videos of which showing terrified Afghan prisoners circulated in bazaars and were sent to the country's television stations...