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...time he returned to politics in 1912 to make an attempt at a third term in the White House, running under the banner of the Progressive Party, he felt free to set out an even more radical vision of what must be done. Social Security, regulation of stock trading, a minimum wage--those ideas would not be adopted until the presidency more than two decades later of his distant cousin Franklin. But T.R. set them seriously in motion...
...Back in his home town, Zarqa, in Jordan, a 12-foot banner was erected Thursday outside the home of Zarqawi?s brother, Sayel "Abu Omar" al-Khalayilaht. In blue letters on white, it proclaimed "the wedding of the hero martyr Abu Mousab al Zarqawi," a reference to the belief among his supporters that his "martyrdom" in the jihad against America has set him on a wedding-like procession to paradise. Veiled women weeping near the house were admonished by al-Khalayilaht, who said "Don't cry, but ululate, for he is a hero and a martyr." That sentiment is unlikely...
...Still, the parallels to the Taliban are obvious. Both groups swept to power under the banner of religion. Both promised to end the anarchy and bloodshed of the regimes they ousted. And both argue that Islam is the answer to their societies' problems. At a rally of hundreds of people in Mogadishu Tuesday, Sheikh Sherif said that the Islamic struggle in Somalia would continue "until we get the Islamic state...
...discovers a new subject. The last third of Rampage charts youngest Lovett brother Denzell's attempts to crack the New York music business, and in his spiky rap lyrics, we get an electrifying glimpse of the unfolding legacy of the Iraq war. "I'm not going to wave a banner against Bush or Howard," Gittoes says. "I'm going to help a 14-year-old rapper make songs that will reach a younger generation." With a sequel already planned, Rampage is a startling work in progress...
...There's more sex in the movie, including a three-way gay routine that features a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" sung in very close quarters. (It still sounds better than Rosanne's version.) But Mitchell has little interest in being the avatar of those triple-X pioneers the Mitchell Brothers, of Behind the Green Door infamy...