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...Christmas dinner, daring to utter indiscretions about the family members who were trying to talk over his bad manners. He was the eternal renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...
...will live on well past the fleeting moment in the collective conscious. The mainstream media needs fresh material daily, burdened by the expectation to cover current events. But with these new technologies, time peg is an anachronism, and news, especially bad news, is no longer in the headlines on Monday and forgotten by Friday...
...Monday, October 30, 7:45 p.m.: An officer checked on an individual “acting suspiciously” around a motor vehicle on Museum Street. The individual informed the officer that they were merely locked out of their own vehicle...
...Karzai's beleaguered national government needs to continue for at least another decade; the U.S. has spent $12 billion so far trying to get the country on its feet for the first time in a generation, and the Taliban has been especially resurgent in the last several months. On Monday, Illinois Senator (and possible 2008 Presidential candidate) Barack Obama said the U.S. should begin drawing down its troops in Iraq over the next four to six months in part to redeploy more to Afghanistan. "The President's decision to go to war in Iraq has had disastrous consequences for Afghanistan...
...Middle East. Although Indonesia desperately needs to attract foreign investment, which has lagged since the bombing campaign started, President Bush remains uniformly unpopular. The U.S. is expected to roll out tens of millions of dollars in funding for health, anti-poverty and education schemes during Bush's Monday visit. But such handouts may do little to convince many Indonesians of American goodwill. "I do not trust Bush," says Mizram, a 20-year-old student who joined Sunday's rallies. "He says he wants freedom, but all he brings is trouble for Muslims. We should give him some trouble back." Given...