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...some have both. Several agencies still produce separate watch lists of terrorists operating worldwide. Last week Congress grew impatient with what seemed to be an exploding universe of terrorist information and action centers in Washington. "Right now there is more confusion than clarity," said an exasperated Representative Jim Turner of Texas, speaking at a hearing Tuesday afternoon. "Surely, almost two years after Sept. 11 of 2001, we could come up with one consistent watch list...
...last elfin turn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Finally, next May, comes Troy. You don't need to be a lovestruck teenage girl to notice that Bloom is one of the hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying...
...JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL. In Hospital’s tightly plotted suspense novel Due Preparations for a Plague, two adults who survived the 1987 hijacking of an Air France flight by Iraqi Islamic Fundamentalists attempt to piece together the gruesome details. As the U.S.’s sordid role in the affair is uncovered, protagonists Lowell and Samantha work to bring their information to light and struggle with the emotional toll of digging into their pasts. Hospital reads from Due Preparations for a Plague on Tuesday, August 5 at 7:00 p.m. Wordsworth Books...
...island where Jack has landed, the Governor (Jonathan Pryce) wishes his spirited daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) to marry the local commodore (Jack Davenport). She has eyes for her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). But the island is attacked by pirates more fearsome than the larcenous Jack. The notorious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) kidnaps Elizabeth to help break a curse on his ship, the Black Pearl. So Jack and Will forge a wary alliance. One wants the ship; the other wants the girl...
Monday’s events began with an afternoon rally and press conference in the grand staircase of the State House, organized and led by fiery Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner ’62. After a dozen speakers railed at length against the cuts in social services, the protesters marched up the staircase to the doors of the House chamber where legislators sat in session...