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...Baathification push is being led by members of the Shi'ite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, the most powerful bloc in the new government, who accuse outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of packing the country's security apparatus with former Baathists. The issue is so sensitive that during a mid-April visit to Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered a private warning to new Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari that the U.S. does not support a mass purge...
...ease the tension. Beijing banned further protests and closed several anti-Japanese websites, while Koizumi offered his apology. But goodwill may be fleeting. Although Koizumi is credited as the architect of Japan's more confrontational foreign policy, he is backed by a growing neoconservative movement in the Diet?a bloc of Young Turk legislators who are both driving and riding the country's rekindled national pride. These are not Japan's traditional patriots, far-right citizens who wear headbands exhorting fealty to the Emperor and who for years have driven their ominous black trucks blaring military marches through the streets...
...video for their new single “Banquet” is any indication, Bloc Party are on the cusp of underground superstardom. Bloc Party marries The Libertines couldn’t-give-a-fuck cool to Franz Ferdinand’s art-damaged pop, and the results are electrifying...
...plays like a trailer for one of Godard’s ’60s-era films. It begins with the band’s personnel mugging in black and white whilst colored circles are superimposed over their faces. The scene abruptly switches to a rock club at which Bloc Party is the headlining act. Their audience seems preternaturally subdued, but slowly and surely they succumb to “Banquet”’s throbbing melody and dance the night away. Just as you will moments after pressing “play...
...Olives cemetery in Jerusalem to attend a memorial service on the third anniversary of the death of his wife Aliza. The former Israeli Prime Minister had not been seen in public since a similar service last year, and some 200 people, including seven Cabinet ministers from his Likud bloc, gathered to pray and pay their respects. After the 15-minute service, Begin answered well-wishers and old friends with only a single vacant repetition of "Shalom." His appearance dispelled rumors that he was bedridden, but it confirmed anew the deep melancholy of the man who has become Israel's most...