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...Veterans who had risked life and limb to defend their country were hailed as living martyrs. But for many, such as Kashfia, hero status was not enough. "The injured felt useless, with no role in society," says Mahmoud Khosravivafa, president of the National Paralympic Committee and himself a disabled vet. "They still wanted to serve their country, so we offered them another arena: handicapped sports. If we can't stop people from becoming disabled, we can always improve their lives. Sport is a way to bring the handicapped back into society...
...Evita; and, soon, Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Che. They all look the part and get to gaze intensely, speak rousingly, and wave a gun - all film-friendly signals of impassioned freedom fighting. But the pre-revolutionary Motorcycle Diaries calls for naïveté, not intensity, and slowly dawning certainty instead of fervent resolution. Bernal isn't the hunky, smoldering Che; he's the thoughtful, awkward Ernesto - and he's splendid, though he doesn't radiate a potent sensuality the way he did as a scheming transvestite in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education. Instead...
...this feature based on the Jim Davis comic strip, Garfield's owner brings home dopey doggy Odie to woo a foxy vet. But even Bill Murray voicing the droll, digitally rendered tabby hasn't made moviegoers go meow...
...decathlon at a 1963 athletic meet in Jakarta, he was sent to the U.S. for Ranger training four years later. By the time of Iraq's conflict with Iran in the 1980s, he had become commander of the Iraqi Special Forces School. During the war, the combat vet led a daring helicopter-borne recapture of Iraq's strategic Kardamand mountain, held by thousands of dug-in Iranian defenders. But Saddam distrusted such displays of talent and in 1984 put the general under mukhabarat surveillance...
...first Friday night, mostly women on Saturday. Exit surveys show that as the week wore on, it even became a date picture. ("That's a good idea," Moore says, "especially if it's a first date, because you'll have plenty to talk about. And also you can vet the date. You'll know right away if you should have a second date.") And thought it wasn't a date, last week, the day before a big race in Sonoma, Calif., racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. even took his crew to see the movie...