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...much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...
...dissolved by stalking Orlean (Meryl Streep) to discover her writerly secrets. Or by enrolling in one of the infamous screenwriting seminars given by Robert McKee (Brian Cox). It is certainly not eased by Kaufman's best invention, a completely fictional twin brother named Donald (also played by Cage), who is everything Charlie is not--chipper, feckless, self-confident. For want of something better to do between dates, Donald starts churning out a totally fatuous action screenplay, which, naturally, he sells for a huge sum of money...
Kenya made a ripe choice. Al-Qaeda has spent years operating there. The government had done little to tighten security after the 1998 bomb blast that shattered the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, along with a twin assault in Tanzania. Porous borders with war-ravaged Somalia and Sudan made it easy to bring in surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). Mombasa has little in the way of immigration or passport controls, and the steamy seaside city is home to the most radical Muslims in the country. Australian intelligence picked up enough chatter about potential danger in Mombasa to issue a travel warning...
Back in 1996, Justin, his twin brother Jef and their friend Larry Kersten were laboring at a Dallas dotcom that had been dangling the prospect of shares before its underpaid employees. But the Sewells and Kersten were low on the ladder, and the promised stock never arrived. A dark mood ensued, Justin recalls, "especially after we started to see other employees becoming fantastically wealthy very quickly...
...There was a very rich meeting of culture between her Somali mother’s background and her Danish father’s,” said Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson. “She was very deliberate about gaining a deeper understanding of her twin backgrounds...