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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: Pakistan, Apple iPhone, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Afghanistan
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: Pakistan, Movies, Edgar Ramirez, Police Investigations, Jennifer Ehle
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A text to Jessica Chastain led her to 'Zero Dark Thirty' [Video]
"If I ever ask you for anything it’s to speak with you for five minutes … just five minutes." Jessica Chastain received that mysterious text from producer Megan Ellison in 2011, completely unaware that director Kathryn Bigelow had been...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Central Intelligence Agency, Gold Standard Incorporated, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer: Torture 'clearly part' of finding Bin Laden
In some of his most expansive comments since his movie touched off a Washington firestorm, the screenwriter of "Zero Dark Thirty" defended his film as depicting torture accurately and said that a pending Senate investigation brought him "a chill." "We&...Tags: Movies, Kathryn Bigelow, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, U.S. Congress
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'Zero Dark Thirty' nails it
You know the beginning and you know the end, but it's the way director Kathryn Bigelow tells the middle in her riveting movie "Zero Dark Thirty" that amazed me. I hope you see it. I'm going to see it again. It should win all the awards, for directing,...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Movies, Barack Obama, Kathryn Bigelow, Al-Qaeda
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Letters: A Navy SEAL's plight
Re "Bin Laden's killer asks for benefits," Feb. 14 The delay in processing veterans' disability claims is inexcusable. But the fact that the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden does not qualify for a pension is based on his own decision to retire...Tags: The Pope, Pension and Welfare, U.S. Army, Interior Policy, Politics
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Sundance 2013: Ex-CIA officers say 'Zero Dark's' Maya doesn't exist
PARK CITY, Utah -- Since opening in theaters last month, the Osama bin Laden manhunt film “Zero Dark Thirty” has intrigued audiences with its inside look at how CIA officers do their jobs. But the employees of the agency who tracked the Al...
Tags: Film Festivals, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kathryn Bigelow, Al-Qaeda
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On Benghazi, blame the bureaucracy
In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will resume the fraught conversation about what exactly took place at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year on Sept. 11. Members...
Tags: Pakistan, Defense Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda, David Petraeus, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Carmike Cinema:Discover the secrets of 'Broken City'
OPENING FRIDAY Broken City It should come as no surprise that every character in a movie with a title like this is either rotten to the core, or a liar, or a schemer, or the bearer of seriously damaging secrets. What is surprising is that these...
Tags: Robert De Niro, Film Festivals, Movies, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Forest Whitaker
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SEAL who killed Bin Laden met with lawmakers to talk veteran care
Out of the service, out of the shadows: The Navy SEAL who reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in the world's most famous secret raid has stepped a little closer toward the sunlight. The unnamed shooter, profiled in a recent Esquire cover story that...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Armed Forces, Los Angeles Times, Government, Iraq
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In 'Lincoln,' a historical lapse
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been acclaimed not just by critics but by historians as well for its acute and realistic portrayal of the 16th president as he maneuvered to pass the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. But the...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Movies, Fiction, Literature, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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Report: SEAL who killed Bin Laden is struggling in civilian life
The American raid to kill Osama bin Laden may be the most famous top-secret mission of all time, and the latest petal of secrecy was peeled away by Bin Laden's killer himself. On Monday, Esquire and the Center for Investigative Reporting co-released a...Tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, U.S. Department of Defense, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Abbottabad (Pakistan)
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