At the Movies
Catch a Fire (2006)
Death of a President (2006)
The Queen (2006)
Running with Scissors (2006)
Shortbus (2006)
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Catch a Fire (2006)
A dog may be man's best friend. But one dog, Lady, decided she needed more friends -- and she found plenty in the knot of toads living at the local pond. A suburban family's secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to light in this personal essay by NPR's Laura Mirsch. (Link to transcript & audio)
The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'honneur) (2004)
No matter what President Bush says, the question is not whether America can win in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States can extricate itself without leaving behind an unending civil war that will spread more chaos and suffering throughout the Middle East, while spawning terrorism across the globe.
More than 4,000 Egyptian Umrah pilgrims are stuck in Jordan and at two Egyptian ports because of failing transportation procedures that were agreed on following the drowning of pilgrims in the Red Sea earlier this year.
Other controlling blondes, like Hillary Clinton, Martha Stewart and Tina Brown, were slapped back after great success (in a trend that The Times’s Alessandra Stanley dubbed blondenfreude), and Ms. Fiorina now thinks she was victimized by gender.
"But beginning in 2002, the United States branded North Korea as part of an axis of evil, threatened military action, ended the shipments of fuel oil and the construction of nuclear power plants and refused to consider further bilateral talks. In their discussions with me at this time, North Korean spokesmen seemed convinced that the American positions posed a serious danger to their country and to its political regime."
A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since the 2003 American invasion, the highest estimate ever for the toll of the war here. (NYT)
With his cart tucked beneath a highway overpass, just beside the railroad tracks and behind a parked taxi, Farouk Salem darted his eyes back and forth nervously as he awaited customers.
Haven: Victor Rasuk, Anthony Mackie, Bill Paxton, Orlando Bloom & Razzaq Adoti (Frank Flowers)