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...White House sent too strong a signal--sometimes even the recalibration needs recalibration. The more nuanced shift of this week, according to an adviser, is "setting things right and putting them in perspective." With anthrax mysteries multiplying at home and no stunning successes overseas, White House advisers believe the string of scientists, Cabinet officers and agency heads answering each flare-up has created a diffuse picture. Bush needs to remind Americans and allies about the terror that launched the campaign, what has been achieved, and the patience that will be needed. The back-to-basics plan is reminiscent of Bush...
...final seven minutes are master-class. In the Luxembourg Gardens, Shiang-chyi's face fills the screen, as ghostly as that fish. A string of snot runs from her nose; there's a tear smear or two on her cheeks. The camera retreats, showing children playing to her left, interrupted when a suitcase on wheels is dragged between them by two adults. Then we're looking behind her sleeping head, at a pond: the suitcase drifts, unexplained, from left to right and out of shot. Back again, and now the frame is filled by a Chinese man who fishes...
...That's why the Alliance needs American advisers, and why it may wait for more carpet bombs to fall before it tries to take Kabul. The U.S. hopes the fall of Mazar will set off a string of rebel victories in the north, demoralize Taliban forces in the rest of the country and inspire wholesale desertions. Now that a major city has fallen, says Sirrs, "the momentum will start to turn against the Taliban." But those who don't defect will melt into their surroundings, lie low and wait to pounce. "The Taliban is unlike anything we've ever seen...
Composer Carter Burwell turns in another of his hauntingly cycling scores, delving into the sense of intrigue evoked by the string instruments. Roger Deakins, Oscar-nominated for his golden-hued cinematography on O Brother, turns in similarly stellar monochromatic work here; every shot is crisp and pristine, bursting with an expressively noir-ish atmosphere...
ISRAEL A String of Assassinations The assassinations of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze?evi and at least three Palestinian militants marked a fresh escalation of hostilities. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the killing of Israel?s hard-line Tourism Minister at a Jerusalem hotel and demanded that he hand over those responsible. Israeli troops reoccupied West Bank towns and a 10-year-old girl was among those killed by tank fire. The death of a Palestinian militant, Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response...