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...have explained soldiers' documentary efforts - letters home, snapshots - as an attempt to force a narrative onto a situation that's out of control. But these videos don't even try to tell a story. They don't need a plot. Highlight reels at least give it a point: Blow stuff...
...Indeed, last week's Middle East confrontation had Bush-folly written all over it-and not just because the Iranian government's cowboy faction might be strutting its stuff. Bush's failure to patiently broker a real Middle East settlement-mostly because he refused to speak to Yasser Arafat or demand concessions from the Israelis-helped lead to Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy in Gaza. Peace isn't made unilaterally. An unstated part of Israeli policy was that provocations by Hamas and Hizballah would have to be met with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from...
...defender Marco Materazzi in the waning minutes of overtime of the World Cup final. Zidane, known as Zizou to the fans who worship him, later explained that he erupted after having to endure one insult too many--not to mention a game's worth of off-the-ball rough stuff--from a fullback who has been called l'animale in Italy...
LOST AND FOUND CAROLYN PARKHURST SEVEN COUPLES on a high-stakes global treasure hunt--it's the stuff of which crappy reality TV is made. But Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel) has fashioned an entertaining, unexpectedly wise novel about contestants on an Amazing Race--esque show: a pair of devout Christians struggling with temptation, an estranged mom and daughter, high school sweethearts and two grownup, washed-up child stars. Her tender, witty prose catches things no camera could...
...time to work, something shifts behind their eyes and they get weirdly intense and laser-focused. "They have personalities that are very, very unpleasantly obsessive," says magician and juggler Penn Jillette (he means that with nothing but affection). "When I was around them practicing, they would do stuff that no one had ever done and then say, 'That sucks...