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...most brutal act of the war in Southeast Asia happened on Oct. 12, when two coordinated bombs killed, at the last count, 191 people--mainly vacationers out for a night's dancing--in two of the bars in the village of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. Since the bombings, Indonesian police have arrested 20 people said to have taken part in the plot. One of them is a man called Amrozi, who has confessed to transporting explosives to the site and was arrested a month after the bombings in his home village hundreds of miles from Bali...
...Let’s get back to your roots. In what ways will the themes of Indian independence and the brutal legacy of European colonialism play into your campaign for UC President...
...poll have "some doubts and reservations" about Bush's leadership as we anticipate going to war. But this could simply mean that Americans see war as a regrettable necessity. The President has decided to plunge ahead because he believes we face a future menaced by frightening weapons brandished by brutal killers who have gone unchallenged and unchecked. It is not a matter of a new, Bush-style Manifest Destiny for a superpower that "obeys only the laws that suit it and respects only the nations that resemble it." It is a matter of giving subjugated peoples a voice...
Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
...clarity. Just as readers in the 1950s (when the books were published) found parallels to World War II, and hippies of the 1960s delighted in Tolkien's peace-loving hobbits, a new generation has embraced Tolkien's nostalgic vision of a lost world, an imagined past both idyllic and brutal. Indeed, the passion for the first movie and this one is part of a new American obsession with fantasy, a national journey to a mythical past where evil is punished and virtue rewarded (see following story...