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Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Ladin's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."
Although one commissioner, former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson, was singled out for particularly strong criticism, commission President Jacques Santer said the body chose "by unanimity to resign collectively."
Vrooman says the Taiwan-born Lee has been singled out because he attended two physics conferences in China in 1986 and 1988, but that 13 Caucasian officials from Los Alamos who went to the same conferences have never been investigated.
Of these three, Raging Bull has been singled out for vindication.
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