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To: coug who wrote (66306)	11/9/2002 10:11:22 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I loved Rare Birds. I hope you do too. But Scotland, Pa. What a movie. Talk about making Shakespeare come alive. Amelie is another favorite of ours. I bought that one, and also purchased Happenstance. I will certainly buy Scotland, Pa, as soon as they sell it at Blockbuster. I saw Frida today. That's the movie of Frida Kahlo's life. Magnificent movie. I am sure you would like it.

To: coug who wrote (66306)	11/9/2002 10:23:50 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Forgot to mention, rented the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Still, it was ok. YaYA Sisterhood was pretty lame. I want to rent Pumpkin, but it isn't at our video store yet. I haven't been able to find the Iranian movie Baran yet, either. I can't remember if I recommended the Triumph of Love to you. But it was very good. If you saw and like A Clandestine Marriage, you would liked the Triumph of Love. Very cute.

To: coug who wrote (66306)	11/10/2002 10:03:10 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Good story: One giant step for Sierra Leone; one small step for the UN. We fail at times to acknowledge--we don't even learn about it from our parochial media--the value of the UN, as seen in the following story (We should continue to press for UN reform--and pay our dues); Tears shed as S.Leone bids peacekeepers good-bye By Christo Johnson FREETOWN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Thousands of people, many in tears, lined the road to Freetown's airport on Saturday to bid farewell to the first large contingent of United Nations peacekeepers to leave war-scarred Sierra Leone. Some 450 Bangladeshi troops, stationed in the West African nation for almost two years as part of the U.N.'s 17,400 strong mission, left Lungi International Airport on a special flight. A smaller group of some 150 Nigerian soldiers left without fanfare on Friday, the U.N. said. The United Nations Security Council gave the green light in September for a gradual withdrawal of peacekeepers as stability is restored after a decade of brutal civil war. "We are leaving with mixed feelings as we have been with the people of Sierra Leone for so long," said Bangladeshi Major-General Ahmed Tarique. The Bangladeshi troops had been involved not only in security but also in building mosques and schools in the Freetown area. They also provided free medical care to many local residents. The peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone is the U.N.'s largest. It has been in place since October 1999. Some 4,500 peacekeepers are to be pulled out in the next seven or eight months. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed shrinking the mission to about 2,000 soldiers by the end of 2004. The civil war in the impoverished but diamond-rich country of 5.4 million pitted government forces against Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels. The war, which killed up to 50,000 people, was notorious for its savagery. Rebel forces terrified the population by hacking off civilians' limbs, raping women and forcing children into combat. The RUF has since been transformed into a political party and a special court has been set up with the U.N. to try about 20 ringleaders for war crimes. Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in May after a U.N.-led drive to disarm government militias and rebels. Serious problems remain, however, including security in diamond-mining areas, high unemployment and poor prospects for former combatants. -0-- The story fails to give credit to the efficient intervention earlier of British forces.