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...reasons I respect the judgment of our professional political operatives is that they have never invited me to participate in a presidential debate. I'd never invite me either. Why not? Because before I took the veil of journalism, I was one of those operatives, spending days and nights drilling candidates with every conceivable question they could possibly expect--which means I have an arsenal of questions they could not possibly anticipate...
...faraway realm rival clans play a brutal game called buzkashi, in which horsemen fight over a dead goat and drag its carcass across a finish line. Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bach-chan), noble chief of his clan, seems destined to win this fierce match, when the veil falls from the face of his main rival and--Allah be praised!--it is a beautiful woman, Benazir (Sridevi). What can our smitten hero do but let Benazir win the race and, to prove his love, lead his warriors in an ecstatic production number...
...jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition, "but as soon as she read, a veil came over her and she totally inhabited the character. She had tons of spontaneity and raw nerve. You could feel the confidence...
...ZENON AND NADIA MATKIWSKY, 64 AND 54; SHORT HILLS, N.J.; medical-relief workers The husband and wife founded Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in 1990, shortly after the veil of secrecy over the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, their homeland, began to unravel. CCRF has delivered more than $40 million in medical aid to "the littlest victims," still plagued by thyroid cancer and birth defects. Quoting the Talmud, Nadia says, "If we've saved a life, we've saved humanity...
...couples who had gotten married today and were running together," Hill-Popper said. "They were wearing like a veil and a tuxedo...