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...Haideri mosque, killing himself and more than 24 Shi'ites. Next to die was radical Sunni Muslim cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, who was gunned down on May 30 while driving to his Binori Town mosque and seminary. The following day, a suicide bomber set off a blast that shattered the dome of the Shi'ite Ali Reza mosque, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Sullied Shrines | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...life. Basically, you're looking to rack up cool points and persuade gangs of punks, rappers or ravers to emulate your style. It's survival of the hippest. Zombie-killing teens need not apply, but with these new releases, about 34 million of us are about to have a blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Sims 2: Virtually Mortal | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...mere movie reviewers: When his latest cinematic incendiary device, ?Fahrenheit 9/11,? had its first press screening Monday morning, American critics emerging from the theater were besieged by a convoy of TV and radio crews from networks around the world who wanted to know what they thought of Moore?s blast at the Bush Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A First Look at "Fahrenheit 9/11" | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...those foes killed him on May 9 by placing a bomb inside a concrete pillar beneath the stands at Grozny's Dynamo Stadium, where the former mufti was attending a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany. Six others died in the blast and up to 89 were injured, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian troops in Chechnya. Putin's immediate response was to vow that "retribution is unavoidable for those whom we are fighting." But after his trip to Grozny, he took a different tack. He ordered 1,125 more Chechen police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Drawing Board | 5/16/2004 | See Source »

...officer. A bunch of Marines jump up and fire back in the general direction of the noise. Others lay down white phosphorus to mark the area where the insurgents' fire seems to have come from. A tank pumps in more tracer. From the roof of an unfinished building, Marines blast the target with machine guns, providing protective cover. The rest of the Marines pull back, running across a field and over to bushes, urged on by yelling noncommissioned officers (NCOs). They expect the insurgents to harass them all the way back to their base. One young man falls and lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life on the Front Lines | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

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