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...terrorist. While Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri issued impotent threats from their hideouts, al-Zarqawi got his hands bloody in Iraq, turning it into the holy war's primary battlefield. He became the jihad's eminent fighter-superstar, embracing and embellishing his infamy with brazen declarations and brutal atrocities--he personally decapitated American Nicholas Berg on videotape, sent scores of suicide bombers to their doom, killed fellow Muslims and attacked their houses of worship. He extended his reach beyond Iraq, dispatching suicide bombers to attack hotels in his native Jordan last November, killing...
Investors who never stopped griping about the cryptic statements of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may already be getting nostalgiac. In most relationships, brutal honesty (or transparency, as it's known in business-speak) is a double-edged sword, and never was that more apparent than in the swift reaction to Monday's candid comments by Ben Bernanke, Greenspan's relatively straight-talking succcessor at the Fed. In a speech to an international monetary conference, Bernanke took a hard stance against inflation and implied interest rates would continue to rise in order to keep inflation in check...
...Imamura, 79, influential director of post-World War II Japan's new wave, who told haunting, often surreal tales of prostitutes, pimps and working-class heroes; in Tokyo. Rejecting the idealized, selfless protagonists of classical Japanese film, he depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even amid brutal conditions. In 1983's The Ballad of Narayama, one of two Imamura films to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, residents of a mythic 19th century village struggle with an edict requiring them to abandon their elders to die on a mountain. "I want to make messy...
...understand just how brutal the war in Iraq has become, spend a day at work with Sheik Jamal al-Sudani. A Baghdad mortician, he travels to the holy city of Najaf every Friday to bury the capital's unclaimed and unknown dead--the scores of bodies that turn up every day, bearing no identifying characteristics save the method by which they were murdered. On a typical trip to the Wadi al-Salaam cemetery last month, Sheik Jamal and a small band of volunteers unload the grim cargo they have brought 100 miles from the Iraqi capital in an old flatbed...
...Intimidation has reached a really serious level," Cairo-based Human Rights activist Fadi Al Qadi told TIME. "The record of the Egyptian security response towards peaceful demonstrators recently has been really awful. It is not legal, it is brutal, and it is a fundamental contradiction of the Egyptian government's promises of reform...