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...total of 2,000 counts of murder, bombing and bank robbery, among other charges. The alleged mastermind of the campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta's brutal crushing of a student revolt on Nov. 17, 1973 gave the group its name. The non-jury trial is expected to last...
...speedy deliveryman and an ironclad routine of clothes-changing, fish-feeding and trolley visits to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood lent our young lives a reassuring sense of order. It was not the use of stunning visual effects, the gripping nature of the plot line, or the intensity of the characters that kept us watching the man who played piano when he’s mad (he liked to get his feelings out through his fingers), but the knowledge that every one of Mr. Rogers’ 870 entrances and trademark disrobings would bring...
...label the film “penitence” for van Sant’s unabashedly commercial recent efforts (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester). But penitence means internal reflection and self-punishment, not suffering imposed on others. Nevertheless, suffering is the primary experience for viewers of this interminable, plot-free bore. Damon and Casey Affleck star as friends, both nicknamed Gerry, lost and wandering somewhere in Death Valley. The film is slow-witted where it should be thoughtful, pretentious when it should be sincere. As the two title characters drift aimlessly under the merciless desert sun, it?...
...been in months, in part because of the possibility that "other tools are in play"--meaning biological and chemical weapons. A senior Administration official says that telephone calls and e-mails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the U.S. using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices. "It wasn't just chatter," says Republican Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It was a pattern...
...says Ephraim, a businessman. Despite the police, who watch, arms folded, the onlookers sing - no, shout - things they wouldn't dare say. The biggest singalong moment comes in Marima Nzara, a lament about a man with a big mouth who chases all the workers away. "You have lost the plot," everyone sings. "You have plowed hunger." Mapfumo never names the big mouth, but everyone knows it's President Robert Mugabe, who has led independent Zimbabwe for all of its 23 increasingly miserable years. "I'm just trying to reach the people," Mapfumo says. The roars that shake the packed hall...