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Perhaps only the icy winter wind that swept the bleak ruins of eastern Europe really understood?the wind that moaned through an emptiness where once people had turned up their coat-collars against the cold, young men who dreamed of great careers, young girls who dreamed of sons. There would be no careers and no sons now, for the girls and the boys were gone...
...market. Ever since the American invasion, poppy production has climbed back up. Additionally, she contends that the terrorist training camps attributed to the Taliban were actually created under the mujahideen, the very same people the US helped to reinstall in its invasion. Gannon ends the book with a rather bleak epilogue, calling on the West to forgo its hypocritical rhetoric and contradictory policies toward Muslim countries and their non-Muslim neighbors, which, she argues, only create the appearance that the War on Terror is, in fact, a War on Islam.Perhaps when the West learns to look at itself as critically...
...while the U.S. and its closest allies are pushing this week for the U.N. Security Council to adopt harsher sanctions against Iran, their prospects of winning U.N. agreement for new punitive measures at this stage appear bleak. Key Security Council powers China and Russia, as well as European states such as Germany and Italy that trade extensively with Iran, warn that new sanctions could endanger such cooperation. But for the U.S. and its closest allies, the fact that Iran's uranium-enrichment centrifuges are spinning is an intolerable fact...
It’s typically a bleak emotional Siberia inside the Carpenter Center. I’ve never had a reason to expect anything besides the cold concrete walls of the main gallery here. And yet, defying their stark surroundings, hundreds of golden candies gleam upon the grey floor in front of me. Félix González-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) is a brilliant surprise, finding appropriate context in Le Corbusier’s stark modernist complex. The exhibition, curated by Helen...
...same theme as Cormac’s book,” he says, in reference to the arbitrary incidents that propel the story forward. “It’s what happens to Llewellyn.”Despite the film’s dark and bleak tone, Brolin remembers his time on set with the other actors as a positive experience.“We had a lot of fun,” he recalls. “It was important to us. We wanted to get away from the tense feeling the script was about...