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Is he alive? Is he insane? Can he come home? And what does it all have to do with the David Bowie title song? We don't know, and the pilot doesn't bother making it plausible, but it does play up the time-travel culture-clash aspects for all...
Industrial lights reflect intermittently off the windshield of a speeding automobile as “Blindness,” the new film by acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, opens with stunning visuals. Meirelles, whose past credits include the equally arresting “City of God,” ingeniously...
McCain has proclaimed this crisis too important for partisan politics--at the same time he was releasing an ad blaming it on Democrats in general and Obama in particular--but in modern Washington nothing is too important for partisan politics, especially a month before an election. Members in tight races...
As he walks briskly down these dusty streets checking on his men distributed across 30 checkpoints, he is joined by Colonel Abdel-Rida Shwaya of the Iraqi police's 7th Brigade. The young sheikh cuts a striking figure, clad in a crisp, white dishdasha and matching headdress. His weather-beaten...
Just before midnight on Sept. 29, Kayani replaced the head of Pakistan's premier intelligence agency and elevated a slew of handpicked generals to key positions in a major shake-up of the military leadership. The most striking appointment is the promotion of Lieut. General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha to head...