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...very near future, the French have cordoned off their housing projects, sites of immigrant crime and anger. They're even contemplating a nuclear final solution to their problem. That's the pretext director Pierre Morel uses to reinvent the action film with gracefully soaring chases and grittily imaginative confrontations--no CGI, very little wire work, just a subtle, clever use of off-speed cameras and canny editing. The result is a movie that makes all its American competitors look klutzy and flat-footed. Maybe it isn't exactly art, but it sure is kinesthetically dazzling...
...Regan to stop apologizing and to start looking for a boss who can stand behind her in controversy instead of kowtowing to the whims of the American public. And with a reported $120 million in annual revenues, according to Newsweek, she shouldn’t have much of a problem...
...link first became a problem last spring, when Hyman, along with Bok and Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, was considered for the interim presidency. The Crimson reported last June that the fellows of the Corporation thought Hyman was too closely associated with Summers to be a viable interim choice...
...Ahmadinejad's biggest problem down the road may be the desire of Iran's political establishment to prove his 2005 election a fluke. Ahmadinejad's moves to shut them out of power - even kicking Khatami out of a courtesy office within the presidential compound - have made conservatives and reformists alike determined to get their revenge. One senior conservative leader, who did not want to be identified, even predicted in a TIME interview that the Iranian parliament would oust Ahmadinejad before the end of his term in 2009. "Most of the decision makers and the elite are against him," he said...
...sectarian conflict in Iraq has implications for the whole Middle East. Long before Americans recognized sectarianism as a problem it was already shaping attitudes beyond Iraq's borders. Not long after Saddam fell from power, King Abdullah of Jordan warned of an emerging Shi'ite crescent stretching from Beirut to Tehran - emerging Shi'ite power and Sunni reaction to it was on everyone's mind in the region...