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...This effort was coordinated by Mariane herself and Angelina Jolie is wonderful in the part. Visibly pregnant, surrendering to despair only in private, sometimes angry, but usually upbeat and commonsensical, we gain an extraordinary sense of a woman hiding her vulnerability, her essential aloneness at the center of the storm, beneath a consistently positive manner. This woman is never, seemingly, out of control. How difficult that must have been is underscored by Winterbottom's portrayal of Karachi. The word "teeming" does not begin to describe this huge and jumbled urban mass, this warren of narrow traffic-clogged streets...
...Parliament building. Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid mosque where Jamia Hafsa is located, preaches against the government, calling for its overthrow if Islamic law is not implemented and claiming that he has 10,000 suicide bombers ready to be deployed. "What do you want us to do, storm the place?" asks Wasim Sajjad, leader of Pakistan's Senate. "We have a huge army, we can do it. But this is a very sensitive time. Elections are coming. The moment we do something, we will be blamed...
...well: celebutante on probation for drunk driving is caught going twice the speed limit with no headlights and a suspended license; sentenced to 45 days, she's released after three by a softhearted--or perhaps lightheaded--sheriff, only to be ordered back by an irate judge amid a storm of public outrage and media glee. But even then it is not to the county lockup she is remanded but to a special medical facility, for an unspecified ailment, at 10 times the cost of regular jail...
Apparently so, for in his memoirs - the English translation of which bears the weirdly exculpatory title In the Eye of the Storm - Waldheim had simply skipped over his three years of military service in the Balkans. I couldn't fathom how anyone's experiences in a time and place like that could fail to figure in any honest account of a life. When Waldheim made a point of showing me that he was reading Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List - the movie had been released there just a week or so before our interview - I developed a strong sense that...
...carriers were delayed by more than 15 minutes or canceled. That news only confirmed what people already knew after the industry suffered terrible publicity on Valentine's Day, when nine JetBlue planes were stranded on a JFK airport tarmac for up to 10 hours due to an ice storm. Less than two months earlier, on Dec. 29, 67 American Airlines planes across the nation had sat on tarmac for more than three hours because of storms in Texas. Passengers inside those planes would later describe the experience as "inhumane." Toilets overflowed. Cabin temperatures rose. Little food and water was available...