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...film production is controlled chaos, and Troy (whose reported budget is an epic $145 million) is no exception. Early this year, as the Iraq war approached, the production judiciously moved from Morocco to Baja California. On the Malta location this spring, severe heat brought fainting spells on many of the burly Bulgarians hired as extras. One bit player, a former Mr. Malta named George Camilleri, suffered a leg wound while jumping from a galleon and died a few weeks later...
...SENTENCED. Muhammad el-Omari, Yassine Lahnach, Rachid Jalil, Hassan Tawsi, to death for their roles in five suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people, including 12 bombers, in May; in Casablanca. The four are members of outlawed terrorist group Salafia Jihadia, which targets U.S. interests and Jews in Morocco. Four Spaniards and three French nationals died in the attacks...
...cited as proof against such skepticism the separation of mosque and state in Turkey, and trends towards democracy in Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and especially Iran, where democratic reforms and a new generation of citizens reevaluating the role of religion in their lives are taking root...
...salesman," paraphrases one veteran.) But the sometimes clandestine status can breed bad habits. Visa bans turn many Evangelicals, usually straightforward to a fault, into truth stretchers, if only at the customs desk. They use encrypted e-mail and code words or smuggle Bibles. "Some," says a Christian minister in Morocco, "seem to have been inspired by the book of James, verse 007." It is not really their fault, says the leader of one mission, contending, "It should not be dangerous for a person to move to a different country and, to use the words of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration...
...least a place to start in trying to understand why Rowling's books are the most popular children's series ever written. It is hard not to believe in magic when you consider what she has done. Through her books, she speaks to kids in Milan and Morocco and Minnesota, and those conversations too are somehow private, even though they are conducted in 200 countries, in 55 languages, in Braille, in 200 million volumes. Children buy her books with their own money. They wear out flashlights reading them after lights-out. Kids with a fear of fat books and dyslexic...