'Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney s The Men Who Stare at Goats, and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: More of this is true than what you might imagine. This wry comment serves as a nod and ...
 3.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 102.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 102.0 Suicide bomber kills 30 near Pakistan's capital; UN suspends work
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan s capital today, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the ...
1.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 259.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 102.0 Gunmen storm U.N. site in Kabul, 12 dead
KABUL (AP) Taliban militants wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early today, killing 12 people including six U.N. staff in the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine n...
0.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 64.0 Baghdad blasts kill 155
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraqi security forces blocked streets around the capital today and conducted intense searches at checkpoints as authorities investigated the massive security failure that allowed two truck bombs to strike what was supposed to be one of...
4.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 64.0 Helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans in Afghanistan
KABUL Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans today in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale confer...
6.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 64.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 334.0 The Genesis of R. Crumb
LOS ANGELES His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time. Which, come to think of it, may have made Crumb the perfect ...
6.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 64.0 Attacks kill 4 at college in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two suicide attackers bombed an Islamic university in the Pakistani capital today, killing four people and wounding 18 as the army pressed ahead with a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghan-istan, authorities s...
3.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 259.0 Suicide car bomber kills 11 at mosque, police station in Pakistani city of Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a mosque next to a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 11 people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror that has hit the ...
1.6K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 259.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 129.0 Pakistan bombs militant sites; thousands flee
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs along the Afghan border today as officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled South Waziristan in anticipation of an expected military offensive. Gov...
4.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 102.0 Pakistani jets bomb militants near Afghan border
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border today ahead of an expected ground offensive there, while the army killed 26 insurgents elsewhere in the northwest, autho...
3.5K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 129.0 Bombing in Pakistan kills 41 as Taliban threaten more attacks
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people today, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilize militants across the country for more strikes. The Taliban al...
1.3K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 102.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 64.0 Suicide car bomb kills 41, wounds 100s in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a crowded market in Pakistan s northwest city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 41 people. The government responded by saying it had no other option but to launch an offensive in th...
1.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 334.0 US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack
KABUL (AP) Taliban fighters claimed Friday their flag was flying victoriously over an eastern Afghan village U.S. forces abandoned after suffering casualties in one of the war s deadliest battles for American troops. The withdrawal this week from m...
6.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 129.0 Taliban suicide attack kills 17 in Afghan city
KABUL (AP) A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the busy center of Afghanistan s capital today, killing 17 people and wounding nearly 80 in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Taliban cl...
0.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 648.0 | 
