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Thus Pentagon officials, who have little confidence that U.N. inspectors will unearth any illicit Iraqi missiles, have poured energy into devising ways to neutralize the Scud threat. Their plans involve putting Scud-hunting commandos on the ground fast, deploying improved technologies for detecting and destroying Scud launchers and missiles--even after they are shot--and shortening the chain of command for anti-Scud operations. Still, a recent independent review concluded that these efforts would probably fall short, which suggests that Iraq's Scuds could again be a complicating factor...
...Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone was sent to Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth the network behind Nizar, that may not stop another one from launching an attack. Investigators can't be sure whether al-Qaeda is plotting one spectacular, centrally organized attack or a series of small-scale ad hoc strikes. Or both. Several months ago intelligence services discovered that dozens of Europe...
...Like the U.S. advisers before them, The Quiet American crew had a mission. Theirs was to unearth hints about how America's involvement in Vietnam was conceived and born. Agree or disagree with their take on the war before the war; then make a wish that the hope and hypocrisy the movie shows is ancient history, not modern prophesy...
Meanwhile, Gowl finds in her role a passion and humor that only an actress of her skills could unearth. Her and Anderson’s interaction while he tries to gain the attention of the beautiful Johanna (Boston Conservatory’s Robyn Kemp) is hysterical...
...Good Men is a strong enough play to carry a flawed production. It puts the word “honor” through a powerful exegesis and contains many moments of quiet beauty. It is unfortunate that such moments are lost in a production that fails to unearth the deeper insecurities of its characters. Perhaps the production’s greatest accomplishment is that it has placed the film at the top of my list of movies to rent...