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...movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...photographs of U.S. troops in Iraq made me weep, and for someone who lived through the Vietnam War era, that is saying a lot. These soldiers are the salt of this earth, but it is criminal for U.S. troops to try to "liberate" a society that obviously functions better under a murderous dictator. The Iraqis are merely waiting to see who comes out on top. They do not deserve to have U.S. soldiers fighting for them. The Iraqi men who were trained to protect and defend their people tuck tail and run. Not one American life is worth...
...cook, introduced Lydon to cooking’s creative side. “My mom is a wonderful forager; she can make something out of nothing,” Lydon says. “With just water and onions, she can make a soup that would make you weep.” Lydon’s early affinity towards cooking didn’t have much room to expand during boarding school at Phillips Academy in Andover, where culinary creativity was limited to “sort of picnics.” Fortunately, Lydon’s natural instincts were...
...Jesus was a Semite; if he was tall, lank, bearded and dressed in flowing robes, as von Sydow is, the person he would have resembled most would be...Osama bin Laden.) The actor's iconographic superiority gives this Jesus the big frosty balls to tell his followers, "Do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for your children. For a day will come when people will say, 'Blessed are the barren...' " Was Jesus sanctifying gay marriage here...
...developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly weep. Outside, chickens scratch around the yard freely--birds not so different from the ones that made Kaptan sick...