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...success of Tom Dobbs’ presidential bid—complicated by an unfortunate, perfunctory conspiracy/romance plot featuring the appealing but ineffectual Laura Linney as a programmer for an electronic voting corporation—seems to represent the failed promise of intellectual standouts like Howard Dean and Gavin Newsom...
...Administration plans to try him for it. The officials tell TIME that KSM confessed under CIA interrogation that he personally committed the murder. Moreover, when he faces a military tribunal at Guantanamo, perhaps as soon as next year, the U.S. plans to charge him not only with the 9/11 plot, but also with direct responsibility for Pearl's death...
...material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, and even the sex scenes have the geometrical elegance and absurdity of classic movie production numbers, making Mitchell a porno Busby Berkeley. When the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...alter Iran's government. Ever since President Bush earlier this year appealed to Iranians to "win your own freedom," and launched a $75 million program to promote democracy in Iran, reporting from Tehran has taken on the flavor of Cold War novel. The government is obsessed with the U.S. plot for 'velvet revolution,' hardline papers declare the most innocuous people (including one sculptor) subversive, and everyone plays the 'who's really a U.S. agent?' guessing game...
...These days, most of the things I used to do as an American reporter are either potentially illegal or seriously unwise. I avoid meeting too many activists, and many avoid meeting with me. There's a mutual fear that a Western journalist plus an opposition figure equals plot. The thing is, now that student dissidents, bloggers, and women's movement leaders have been identified (branded) by the United States as potential agents of peaceful change, they have become perceived as security threats by the Iranian government...