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...Lakshya (which roughly translates as "aim" or "focus") follows an urban slacker (Hrithik Roshan) who joins the Indian army on a whim and winds up finding heroic purpose fighting Pakistani troops who crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999. The tragic context of a conflict that has cost up to 70,000 lives offers ample opportunity for that staple of Bollywood film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard rarely misses an opportunity to comment on his greatest passion: cricket. An obsessive fan of the game?Australians call him a "cricket tragic"?it surprised few to hear that Howard holds an opinion on an issue that is the talk of the international cricket fraternity: Is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, a slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket...
...this month, the recently appointed Iraqi administration will take over “full sovereignty” of Iraq—at least in name. It is hopeful, although highly doubtful, that this changeover will mark the beginning of the end of the Bush administration’s tragic foreign policy miscalculations in Iraq. The Iraqi people, the American people and indeed people worldwide, deserve better...
Although Christianity is a focal point in my life, I do not possess a red phone to the Almighty, and neither does Bush. It is tragic that his simplistic way of thinking does not allow for doubt or reflection and precludes the consideration of religious and cultural values that clash with his personal world view. ANN HARGROVE Leesburg...
...breaker) steps to the ancient university and cathedral, go back down to the square by the River Mondego and grab a taxi across the bridge to the Quinta das Lágrimas (house of tears) in Santa Clara. The hotel was built on the site of Portugal's most tragic love affair. In the 14th century, Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the beautiful Spanish noblewoman Dona Inês. They lived with their two children until one January night in 1355, when Pedro's father, King Afonso IV, fearing that Inês' Spanish brothers were plotting...