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...administration and compliant news agencies had worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description of the conflict to “civil...
...citizen to be held without charge after being labeled an "enemy combatant" by President Bush. A 36-year-old former Chicago gang member, he was arrested in June 2002, following his arrival at Chicago's O'Hare airport. The U.S. claimed he had been sent by al-Qaeda to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb" in an American city...
...Heroes strip. After moving to Marvel, he created, with writer Len Wein, such X-Men as the weather-manipulating Storm, below, who was played by Halle Berry on the big screen. When asked why he worked in comics rather than another art form, he said, "Where else can you blow up entire galaxies, or hurtle through space on a tiny surfboard, or travel to other dimensions, or meet the most outlandish alien beings, on the minuscule budget we get to work with...
...most brutal moment in the movie is a gruelingly long torture scene in which Bond literally has his balls flogged. He evinces a similar level of emotional rawness, reduced to screams and rantings that grow crazier with each blow. The couple’s admission of love comes two scenes later, when Vesper tends to the recovering 007. She tries to express her newfound feelings in spite of her harsh demeanor: “If all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you’d still be more of a man than anyone...
...Kremlin had targeted Litvinenko, his death, coming just weeks after the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in her Moscow apartment block, has sent a subzero chill over Russia's already frosty civil society. Human-rights campaigners and other Putin critics see the killing as the latest blow to democracy and free speech, part of a steady erosion of civil liberties. Russian democracy was chaotically vibrant just a decade ago, after the collapse of communism in 1991. But these days it is looking fragile. New legislation annuls independent candidates for the Duma (parliament's lower house), and no political party...