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...form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury. Why a Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for visual and psychological conflation, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, the screaming Pope in Head VI suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (One source for the image was a photo of Joseph Goebbels in full harangue.) Yet at the same time he's the face of the powerlessness of absolute power...
...McCarthy’s passion for public service and activism led him to lead and participate in rallies and protests throughout his years at Harvard. Most notably, his consistent criticism of the Bush administration post-9/11 earned him the number 32 spot on a “black list” published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni of 117 academics “short on patriotism...
...Frederick, a former editor atTIME, is writing a book about Green's unit, titled Black Hearts: One Platoon's Disintegration in the Triangle of Death and the American Ordeal in Iraq, which is to be published in spring 2010 by Harmony Books...
...lightly defended traffic checkpoint just outside the insurgent-infested town of Yusufiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Nursing a hatred of Iraqis stemming from heavy losses their unit had suffered, and fueled by several bottles of Iraqi whisky, they embarked upon a premeditated crime of gruesome barbarity. Donning black long-underwear outfits as disguises, even though it was the middle of the day, they traveled a few hundred meters to an isolated farmhouse where they gang-raped Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, and murdered her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister...
...work as Philadelphia's District Attorney for eight years, overseeing 250,000 cases. In 1969, he hired two rival gang leaders as consultants to address the city's rising violence and the following year charged two white policemen with aggravated assault and battery in the shooting death of a black man - moves that won both derision and praise...