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...splinter faction of the wider Muslim secessionist movement in the southern Philippines. Years of fighting the Philippine military has reduced it to a group of around 80 fighters, mostly engaged in kidnapping and other forms of banditry. They currently hold three foreign hostages, two of them American. The hot, thick jungles have made it hard to eliminate Abu Sayyaf altogether. But the Philippine military has also been accused of mismanagement and corruption...
...unlike many other German filmmakers (including his wife Thea von Harbou) who stayed in the Reich and whose careers flourished under the Nazis.” Lang was dictatorial in his directorial style, and often subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions...
...unlike many other German filmmakers (including his wife Thea von Harbou) who stayed in the Reich and whose careers flourished under the Nazis.” Lang was dictatorial in his directorial style, and often subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions...
...famously used to spend hours trimming back the branches of trees at the ranch--for more of a view, and to get firewood. Now he looks out a large window at a thick bank of oak trees standing like silent green witnesses to the life on the other side of the glass. Hermann Hesse wrote, "A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening." What does my father think of when he looks out at the oak trees? Does he dream? Feel old longings stir somewhere in him? There are pictures...
...Secret Service may be calling the shots, but more than 60 federal, state and local organizations are working together in Salt Lake City, and ad hoc multi-agency task forces with heavy-duty acronyms--the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command (UOPSC), the Olympic Joint Terrorism Task Force (OJTTF)--are thick on the ground. More than 15,000 federal, state and local personnel will watch over the Games, among them 1,900 members of Utah's National Guard--the largest single call-up in the state's history--as well as 100 U.S. Marshals and 200 Border Patrol agents from...