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Opinion: Stuck in neutral?

A German Air Force Tornado combat aircraft is rearmed during the NATO exercise Loyal Arrow near Lulea in northern Sweden, June 10, 2009. (Patrick Tragardh/Reuters) NEW YORK — In world politics, neutrality is in the eye of the beholder. For Utopians and ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Global Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  John Lennon,  European Union,  United Nations,  Francis Fukuyama

Modern Warfare 2: war is not a game

Unlike most of the people that you will have heard arguing about Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, I have actually played some of the game. Last night I played through the already notorious ‘airport’ level, in which your protagonist is obliged to take ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Mills,  Richard Todd,  Virginia Tech,  National Rifle Association

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 premiere report

Since the first cinemas opened there in the late 1920s, Central London’s Leicester Square has been cordoned off countless times for film galas. Never before, though, has this prestige entertainment destination been given over to the launch of a ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Vernon Kay,  Kevin McKidd,  Bill Murray

Opinion: The day after the Wall fell

NEW YORK — As the attention of the world's media turns to Berlin, where 20 years ago East Germans freely crossed the Berlin Wall for the first time, few have paid attention to what happened the day after. Back then no one could envision that the period ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Global Post,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Helmut Kohl,  Milan Kundera,  Angela Merkel,  George W. Bush,  NATO

Brüno

Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat is dafter, more dangerous and filthier than its predecessor. It follows the same premise of loosely scripted improvisations of toe-curling awkwardness with a cast of concealed stooges and perplexed bystanders. ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sacha Baron Cohen,  La Toya Jackson,  Al-Qaeda

Crossing the border, 1990

NEW YORK — We hunched in the tall saw grass, Christian and I, he wielding a Nikon, me clutching a reporter’s notebook. With us was a Romanian smuggler named Iordan, a “sherpa” of sorts making a good living smuggling eastern European migrants into what ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Global Post,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  NATO,  Margaret Thatcher,  David Binder,  U.S. Congress

Italy, the CIA and rendition

NEW YORK — The label “War on Terror” may be out of style as a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in Rome an Italian court served notice that some of its more controversial practices — including the abduction of alleged ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Global Post,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda,  Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr,  George W. Bush

The Top 25 Moustaches In Pop

If you were to ask the average man (or woman) in the street about moustaches they would probably suggest that they had gone out of style during the youth-obsessed Fifties. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the style-conscious world of popular ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Midge Ure,  Frank Beard

Avatar: Exclusive new trailer

NB: The new trailer for Avatar will appear on this page from 5:30pm GMT. James Cameron's sci fi epic is shaping up to be the cinema event of the year. With revolutionary motion capture techniques that give the CGI characters an unprecedented ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: James Cameron

The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010

It’s an uncertain business, trying to predict next December's ‘Movie Of The Year’ list. This year, it’s trickier than ever, as the reverberations of the credit crunch continue to shake the capricious world of film finance. Even a minor hiccup in ...

From MICHAEL MORAN, Times Online,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Rose McGowan,  Harrison Ford,  Rachel McAdams,  50 Cent,  Sarah Palin

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