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...Vietnam veteran, I agree with Kinsley. Bring our troops home, and stop wasting the sacred blood of soldiers and billions of dollars. Steve Jakatt Coatesville, Pennsylvania...
...Peters factor cut deeper than the name. The company was filled with his adherents, including some who were itching to emerge from his shadow. "We weren't all trying to be mini--Tom Peters," says Parks, a 20-year veteran of the firm. "[But] some people in the organization had tom peters tattooed on their arm." In fact, some key players who had followed Peters into the company eventually followed him out. Ron Crossland stepped into the void but in January passed the management torch to Thompson while remaining as chairman...
...purse out the window, and Esma and her friend Sabina giggle like the schoolgirls they are. The human element here is more important than the didactic war message. Mirjana Karanovic’s acting as Esma is poignant in its clear-eyed honesty and, again, simplicity. A veteran from popular Bosnian director Emir Kusturica’s films and a national star in the country, Karanovic plays Esma without pretension, as a woman straining to forget the past and bravely face the present. Luna Mijovic, a debuting actress, plays Sara with surprising freshness and frankness. The relationship between Esma...
...this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from the veteran British award-winning filmmaker falls far below expectations. Named after a 19th century Irish folk song, “Barley” follows Damien (Cillian Murphy of “28 Days Later,” “Red Eye,” and “Batman Begins?...
...Evidence of how mean those streets can be was seen again in Gaza City yesterday, when gunmen kidnapped veteran BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who has lived and reported in Gaza for the past three years. Leaders from both Fatah and Hamas immediately decried the kidnapping, with Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad calling it a "brutal and criminal action, and a shameful action, done by irresponsible people who are trying to create more tension in our society." There are clearly a number of groups seeking to do that, and others seeking to create more tension within Hamas itself. Among them...