October 15, 2009 - Global Comment

London Film Festival: claustrophobia and carnage in “Lebanon”

October 15, 2009
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By Mark Farnsworth

Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Fighting in built-up areas, street fighting, urban combat, call it what you will, is the real horror of modern...

Terror in Pakistan: us against them, them against us, fade out

October 15, 2009
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By Kyla Pasha

My grandmother, who's from Pittsburgh, was very afraid that I'd turn out not American enough, so she taught me the Pledge of Allegiance and the "Star-Spangled Banner," asking me to recite them every...