Tracing the roots of radicals

Tracing the roots of radicals
“Somalis need to tell our own stories,” says an ex-radio journalist whose documentary about the young men who left Minneapolis to fight in Somalia is showing this week.
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Geoffrey Macnab: The dark side of the screen
The Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci is gracious and cultured – an intellectual and an aesthete, not an ogre. But his remarks following the death of the French actress Maria Schneider last week suggested that he is racked with guilt over his behaviour 40 years ago when he worked with her and Marlon Brando on Last Tango in Paris.
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Gadget gifts for road warriors
If you have people on your gift list who travel a lot, you may want to think about giving them something to keep them comfortable and entertained while on the go, even if they’re not as nomadic as George Clooney’s road-warrior character in the movie “Up in the Air.” We can’t do anything about delays, cramped seating, jetlag, traffic jams and noisy passengers, but these gadgets could make it …
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