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...Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases used for staging attacks inside the border security zone and against northern Israel. During the raid, at least 15 Lebanese and two Israeli servicemen were killed. At week's end, the Israelis began to withdraw troops, following reports that the captured soldiers were not in the area...
...students were choosing fiction over life, a well-muscled Rocky-Rambo as hero, instead of the motley reality of the Vietnam experience that was parading below their windows. Rambo was a hero--tough, honorable, simple, yet sensitive, devoted to a cause, and a cause that was right. You could root for Rambo. How could these students not prefer him over real Vietnam vets--all-too-real reminders of the ambiguous nature not only of the Vietnam War, but of human beings in general. These vets were real people, and real people tend to be too complicated to be described...
Thus commenced the so-called monster trial, Italy's most ambitious, costly and complex attempt ever to root out the Mafia from its historic home in western Sicily. Everything about the criminal prosecution is gigantic. There are 467 defendants, variously charged with drug trafficking, Mafia membership and 90 murders in an 8,636-page indictment. More than 400 witnesses are scheduled to testify. The alleged Mobsters will be defended by a small army of some 300 lawyers. More than 3,000 extra police have been brought to Sicily to protect those involved in the trial...
...statement or even really using these ingredients to create unusual characters, the makers of this movie invoke over-used stereotypes and slapstick humor. The slum high-school is just a convenient if colorful backdrop for Goldie Hawn's dizzy smile and the players simply big, nondescript things to root...
They were, all of them, human like us. Their courage and ambition took root in the familiar, sustained by circumstances and routines that everyone can recognize. On that last morning they were in preflight isolation but still a part of us. They got up and dressed, had breakfast and went to work...