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...private life the conscience is our secret police, driving us to repent, but in public life contrition is often more about opportunity than obedience. With epic misconduct on every front page--the Vice President's man a convicted perjurer, the sacred trust of wounded soldiers betrayed--there was a window for anyone accused of more commonplace crimes to wipe the slate clean...
...postmortem identifications.” Sara and her boyfriend first bond over the death of their fathers. However, all is not drenched in the drama and pain of the past: Esma and Sara rough-tumble in their pajamas, Sara throws her babysitter’s 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?...
...Some on the right have been keeping a light in the window for the last conservative to have led a revolution. Newt Gingrich recently confessed his past marital infidelity on the Christian radio show of James Dobson, admitting he was carrying on with the House aide who became his third wife even as he was lambasting Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In the upside-down leap of reasoning that this campaign season has wrought in the movement, hanging his dirty sheets from the window was enough to convince everyone that Gingrich is running - and landed him an invitation...
...Harvard police continued to investigate the incident in which a student fell through a ground-floor window at Quincy House last week, House officials yesterday sought to assuage student fears and said it was unlikely that anyone from outside the University was involved. A roommate of the victim said he doubted that the incident was the result of a malicious attack. The roommate added that the victim was in the hospital yesterday, having surgery on his hand. The Crimson is withholding the names of the victim and his roommate because the victim could not be contacted yesterday. The March...
...Driving through Baghdad one afternoon before hostilities started, I pointed to an imposing-looking building and asked my driver what it was. To my surprise, he grew wide-eyed in terror, hit the gas and simultaneously reached across and grabbed my hand, yanking it away from the window. "Don't point at that building, don't even look at it," he said, his voice cracking in fear. "I will explain later." After we had driven out of that neighborhood, he told me the building was the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the dreaded internal spying agency, and my driver feared that...