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...lethal rocket strikes against the U.S. occupation army are part of the regular routine. At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali--the nom de guerre he has chosen--welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Despite the steady whoomp-whoomp of circling U.S. helicopters, the insurgents sit back, chain-smoking and chatting about weapons, tactics, the long lines to get gasoline, whose children are starting to crawl. A young man spreads a plastic sheet on the floor and lays out plates of roasted chicken, rice, bean...
...Sudanese security forces? Is the Sahara as unforgiving as they say? When he arrives around 8 p.m., with 24 other Somalis, there is good news and bad. Yes, they will be leaving tonight for the Libyan border, but they will be making the trip in a single well-worn flatbed truck. "It's just luck which truck you wind up in," Abdi Salan says. The Somalis cram into the back with their meager belongings and are told to stay silent. They roll out of Khartoum in the pitch-black night at about 40 km/h. Abdi Salan has just one thought...
...said he hopes to collect exactly 333 signatures— a figure inspired by the number 33, worn by Bressman’s favorite athlete, the appropriately fowl-named basketball star Larry Bird...
That's the thing about nudity on the screen. It doesn't make any difference if what's displayed is trim and taut or creased and worn. It's not what we see but what we hope to feel that justifies the exposure. No matter how old the actors (or the audience), that's the best reason for going to the movies. Or, come to think of it, for dropping your own duds. --By Richard Schickel
...students who have worn the costume have served as the spirited mascot of the Byrd-Mani campaign...