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Michael Kenneth Williams' portrayal of Omar Little, the iconoclastic shotgun-toting stickup artist in the HBO drama The Wire, earned praise from critics, peers and gangsters alike. With David Simon's Baltimore saga wrapped up, Williams has moved to the silver screen, where he has a part in director John Hillcoat's adaption of Cormac McCarthy's postapocalytic novel The Road, in theaters Nov. 25. Next year, he'll build on that with roles in Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest and a new HBO series helmed by Martin Scorsese. Williams talked to TIME about his early career...
...TIME's write-up of The Wire on the top 10 TV shows...
...Little more than 60 miles (100 km) from Thailand's fabled beaches lies another land that has far more in common with the barbed-wire disquiet of Iraq or Afghanistan than the sunny image projected in tourist brochures. Nearly every day, violence - motorcycle bombs, shootings, arson attacks, beheadings - claims another life in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, which, unlike the rest of the Buddhist-majority country, are 80% Muslim. The region was a Malay sultanate until the early 20th century when Thailand annexed it. While members of both faiths have been killed by Muslim militants...
...handing thousands of firearms to briefly trained and skittish citizens the best strategy? Lieutenant General Pichet Wisaijorn, the Fourth Army commander in charge of security in a region fortified by miles of razor wire and tons of sandbag bunkers, contends that there's no alternative to a weapons buildup. "If everyone threw away their guns, that would be wonderful," he says. "But if the insurgents have guns and no one else does, that's not fair. We have to help people feel secure, and guns give them protection...
Gortney called the LRAD "a terrific non-lethal weapon," and said cargo ships plying those waters should also use other means - slippery foam and barbed wire around ships' entry and exit points - to ward off pirates. But kinder, gentler techniques have their limits. "At the end of the day, if your opponent has an AK-47, the LRAD is not quite as effective as that AK-47," he said. "A well-placed round from an M-16 is far more effective than that LRAD...