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...male with brown skin and a Muslim name, I could be the man they are looking for. The moment I step off the plane at Kennedy Airport, I see they're looking harder than ever. A dozen federal officers crowd the narrow jetway. Not wanting to attract attention, I avoid their eyes...
There is something inexplicably wounded in her eyes, something wary and frightened in the way she meets the world. As Nadi, Shohreh Aghdashloo, 51, is the delicate fulcrum of civility on which the hostility of House of Sand and Fog is balanced. She cannot avoid the tragedy that envelops her proud husband (Ben Kingsley) and a careless, clueless young woman (Jennifer Connelly) as they wrangle over the eponymous dwelling. But through her serene, subtle and heartbreaking performance, she does steal the film...
...fluid and orderly. Crucial, they say, will be "setting expectations" for everything from stabilizing the electric grid to securing the annual hajj pilgrimage and opening the nation's airports. It will all build to a climactic moment--the departure of U.S. civilian chief Paul Bremer. Administration officials want to avoid at all costs a chaotic scene that would remind Americans of that notorious helicopter getaway from the embassy compound in Saigon in 1975. Says a top official of Bremer's departure: "You're going to see that handled very, very carefully...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...ignored the need to innovate--even in the market for what Nicolin jokingly calls "bent cardboard." Esselte is aggressively seeking patents on new products, and it has done five times as much market research this year as in the past five years combined. "That's how you avoid being marginalized," Nicolin says...