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...specter of a rearming and aggressive Japan gives the rest of Asia flashbacks to WWII, but the truth is that Iwakuni, like all Japanese military facilities, is far more defensive than offensive. While missile-armed FA-18 Hornets launch daily from the American side of the base, Japan's hangars are filled with craft like the MH-53, which sweep for mines, and the US-1A, a giant propeller-powered flying boat that has participated in hundreds of sea rescues...
...Multiple reporters address Gore, whose film, An Inconvenient Truth, has just won Best Documentary Feature, as "Mr. President," but the Veep doesn't take the bait to further politicize the night. "I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again," Gore says. One of the film's producers, Laurie David, wife of comedian Larry David, says she's not entering the Democratic fundraising fray yet. "It's very early in the race," David said. "I'm just gonna hang around and see who else might enter. You never know." Gore declines to give the film as much...
...site, Kareem introduces himself as a 22-year-old law student studying in Al Azhar University, one of the oldest colleges in the world, soliciting his readers help against all forms of discrimination. In truth, Kareem had been expelled from the university in 2006 after clashing with the school's conservative administration. Azhar officials considered his blog writings too critical of the school and its religious scholars. Kareem then had difficulty enrolling in another law school. Describing his distaste for his Al Azhar University experience he wrote last October about the religiously-run instution's "infiltration of public life...
...used as a shroud to condone harm and, as one film interviewee describes, to “dip back into the well of evil in the human soul.” The film is narrated only by a portentous score from local composer John Kusiak. REVEALING THE TRUTH In a question-and-answer session following the screening, Moss and Galison said that the intent of the event was to gauge reaction and open dialogue before the film’s anticipated release this summer. “We’d like [‘Secrecy?...
...points where Eggers’ stylistic choices seem heavy-handed (on the 13th time that a transition into the past begins with the formulaic address to the hospital attendant, you wonder whether a simple line break wouldn’t suffice) and you long for a little artlessness.But, in truth, Eggers’ retelling of this story is exactly what we needed. For those of us who have been reading new stories about hundreds upon hundreds of deaths, who are no longer shocked by another headline about a bomb in some distant city, and who have difficulty remembering...