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...returns with what he claims is extra footage for Saroyan's film; his mother, Ani (Egoyan's real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened...
...quarantine--we called it a quarantine because a blockade is an act of war--and the other group recommended an attack. Kennedy asked General Walter Sweeney, chief of the Tactical Air Command, if he was certain he could take out all the missiles. Sweeney replied, "We have the finest fighter force in the world; we have trained for this kind of operation, and they would destroy the great majority. But there might be one or two or five left." What President would knowingly take the risk of exposing millions of Americans to attack by not destroying one, two or five...
...Iraqi forces that had been fighting in sporadic skirmishes with the 3rd Infantry over the previous 36 hours. Nasiriyah remained unoccupied by U.S. forces. In the capital, Saddam's Interior Minister, Mohammed Diab al-Ahmed, appeared before journalists, brandishing a Kalashnikov. "It is Bush who is the lone fighter," al-Ahmed said. "It is we who will achieve a great victory, and we are not dreaming." Maybe not. But the regime's worst nightmare is about to begin. --Reported by Mark Thompson, Tim Burger, James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington; Brian Bennett/with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing; Sally...
...Iraq rumbles through its second week, the original war on terror?against remnants of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?still seethes. U.S. forces opened a new front against pro-Taliban fighters last week, this time just outside Kabul. Operation Desert Lion, as it has been dubbed, is targeting suspected pro-Taliban forces in the snowy mountain range between the capital and the U.S. air base at Bagram, 50 kilometers away. In southern Afghanistan, 600 troops backed by choppers and fighter planes began a second week of scouring villages and mountain caves for rebels. Soldiers have taken nine men into custody...
...Twenty four hours earlier,42 year old Iraqi civil engineer Abdul Amir had told the check point soldiers that the Army in Shinafiyah was staying at home and the only fighter they might confront would be poorly trained militias. " Some of them want to fight, and some of them may be made to fight."he said. "It's suicide. There is no benefit, only fighting, only death. Their only chance is cheating, fighting beside children, using white flags, whatever they have...