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...porcelain doll, is sitting on a bed, watching her mom dress before leaving home. "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?" the girl sings. The next day, Duha gets the answer from the evening news. It turns out her mother was carrying explosives and had blown herself up, killing four Israelis. The final scene shows the girl wistfully rummaging through her dead mother's bedside table. She finds a hidden stick of dynamite and picks it up. The implicit message is that someday Duha will follow her mother into blazing martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian Moms Becoming Martyrs | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...girls, but the instructor was also a drummer,” he said.The instructor, Sidi Mohammed “Joh” Camara, introduced him to the djembe, a drum traditionally from the Mali area that is now found all over West Africa. “I was just blown away by the sound of the djembe. It almost sounds like someone is speaking to you, and as soon as I heard it, I knew I needed to learn it,” he said.He got his own djembe after saving up money from various jobs and started to take...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oludamini D. Ogunnaike '07 | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...only a few millionaires playing politics. Dr. Harold Jones, ERBACH, GERMANY Taming Terrorism's Reign The tragedy of the Sinnathambi family is not unique [Apr 16]. Civilian casualties and displacement can occur in any armed conflict, whether the guise is ethnic or religious strife. Once a dispute becomes full-blown war, the weapons industry takes over by supplying arms to both sides of the dividing line. This is a major reason for prolonged conflicts, and in this regard the action of the U.S. government to prevent weapons from reaching the l.t.t.e. is commendable. Jayantha Guruge, DAVIS, CALIFORNIA, U.S. Verbal Villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misery of Zimbabwe | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...roles. But on the other, it has a desensitizing effect. I was so numb by the third act that I couldn’t even appreciate the final blow, which ought to be the most striking: when George reveals Martha’s final secret. I wanted to be blown out of my seat, but was too emotionally drained to respond beyond...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Who’s Afraid?’ Is a Strong, Intense Play | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...wasn't protecting Iraqis; it was destroying what little institutional foundations were left in the country. The net effect was to persuade many ex-Ba'athists to join the insurgency. Condi said she was very frustrated by the situation, but nothing ever happened. Several months later, with a full-blown insurgency under way, an interagency group headed by Deputy National Security Advisor Bob Blackwill desperately looked for ways to reach out to dissident Sunni Arabs. We again raised the subject of rolling back the de-Ba'athification order. Doug Feith retorted that doing so would "undermine the entire moral justification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Tenet Strikes Back | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

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