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...island is now a motel, the kind of motel so ancient and creaky that one suspects Norman Bates might leap out from behind any of its murky corners. A brutal storm has flooded the single road that leads away from the motel, so various marooned travelers start checking in one by one. They include a high-strung actress (Rebecca De Mornay) and her resourceful limo driver (John Cusack), a short-fused policeman (Ray Liotta) escorting a murderous prisoner (Jake Busey) and a high-priced hooker escaping Las Vegas to tend to an orange grove in Florida (Amanda Peet...
Within 24 hours, a group of men armed with a two-by-four arrived at her door and tried to storm into her room, Lo later reported to police. Unable to enter, they then allegedly left a note on her whiteboard: “I love kicking Muslims ass bitches ass! They should all die with Mohammad. We as Americans should destroy them and launch so many missiles their mothers don’t produce healthy offspring. Fuck Iraq Saddam following fucks. I hate you, GO AMERICA...
...Crimson weathered the storm behind the stellar goaltending of junior Elana Miller, who had entered at halftime, and quickly blew the game wide open...
...flashing their choppers at a crowd that had grown restless as the soldiers approached the mosque at the Tomb of Ali in Najaf, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites. The tactic helped win over a crowd that had more questions than answers. Were the soldiers going to storm the mosque, as some agitators were shouting? Were they liberators? Or conquerors? Were they really going to kill Saddam Hussein this time...
...seem petty to quibble over presidential style as the troops storm Baghdad and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime appears imminent, but this war hasn't been nearly so simple as Bush has pretended--and his simplicity may be doing significant damage to America in the world. The military campaign has been a success, but it is far from clear that victory in Iraq will be a net positive in the larger war on terrorism or even, ultimately, that it will be seen as an American foreign-policy success. Indeed, two of the basic rationales for the war--that...