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Hafez may have schooled his son well in Mideast topology, but it seems he skipped a few pointers for handling the U.S. Many considered Hafez a master of the double game, a man who could have American diplomats queuing up for talks even as Syria sponsored global acts of terror. Bashar began to irritate Washington within months of taking office--in early 2001 he reneged on a quiet understanding to shut down a pipeline pumping illicit oil out of Iraq...
...does an MTV-generation guy get into the business of dishing out counsel to seniors? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Miller holds a master's degree in education from Kansas' Wichita State, although he never made it past teacher training. He says, half-jokingly, "I found out I hate kids." He moved to Norman, home of the University of Oklahoma, in 1988 to work in the athletic department and became a stadium announcer. Then in 1999 things took a jarring turn. Miller's mother was dying of breast cancer when his father came home from visiting...
...most enjoyable entertainments on a luxury cruise is observing the flirty machinations some passengers will employ to wangle an invitation to sit at the captain's table. Davien and I, as supernumeraries, sat there for every meal. The master of the Ingrid Oldendorff is Oleksandr Ponomarenko, a tall, handsome Ukrainian man, who genially introduces himself as Alex but is never called anything but "Captain." Like many intelligent seamen, he has a melancholy disposition, which he constantly tries to lighten with humor...
...After war broke out, a perceptible gloom descended on the ship, so the master ordered a party, a barbecue on the portside deck. Victor outdid himself, orchestrating a splendid, meaty feast with all the fixings. He consulted me, as the ship's temporary resident Texan, for advice about making barbecue sauce; in the end, he stretched it with leftover watermelon. (Strange, but perfectly good form: as any Texan will tell you, you can throw whatever you like into a barbecue sauce...
...agent of karma? A mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp of a master," according to film critic Chidananda Dasgupta.) The film is more beautifully shot than the rest of Adoor's oeuvre combined...