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...creepy marvel to watch James in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both. A quote from former New York Times Iraq expert Christopher Hedges that opens the film says, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in a hellish peace-keeping operation like the U.S. deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan (James' previous assignment...
...experience a uniquely Persian tradition, head over to a Zurkaneh (or House of Strength) and watch a team of men, accompanied by a drummer and singer, perform an ancient sporting ritual that combines wrestling, aerobics, juggling and Sufi whirling...
...civilians died in South Ossetia on Aug. 7 before Russian troops arrived on the scene. That estimate has since been reduced - by Russia - to 133, which is well short of anyone's definition of a "genocide" that would justify a rapid foreign intervention. Representatives of Human Rights Watch, who visited all four hospitals in the region shortly after the battle, say the organization has proof of only 44 deaths that night...
...Wasilla was little more than half as big as it is today, and much more loosely confederated. The main issue then, says longtime resident Chas St. George, was public safety. "We needed a police department," he says. "So we set up a group to make it happen." That group - Watch on Wasilla - included a handful of the town's most influential figures: St. George; the town's mayor, John Stein; and Palin, who wasn't in elected office yet. Her father-in-law Jim Palin and his wife Faye were also in the group...
...suicide bomber who unleashed the scene of carnage August 17 destroyed all chances of seeing such a future vision come to pass for al-Obeidi and the others who died. Those of the Awakening movement who live on there and elsewhere across Iraq are left to watch in growing apprehension as similar hopes fade. With reporting by Abigail Hauslohner/Baghdad