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...email to me: “Our soldiers in Najaf fought for hours on end to retrieve an exploded, deadlined HUMVEE, just so that pictures wouldn’t be used later on of joyful insurgents dancing on top of it, even after they had just suffered a brutal defeat. American lives were risked to prevent American and global media from spinning a victory into humiliating defeat.” Hard-hitting stories like this are what storyteller blogs are truly good at—they showcase the real power of egalitarian media. By allowing anyone...
...shares valued at about $3.87 million in an oil company named PetroChina—almost wholly owned by the Chinese government—which is participating in a joint-venture with the Sudanese government, in effect providing that regime with cash that has been used to wage a brutal war on its own people...
...following an attack by government-sponsored goons on her convoy, in which scores of people were reported injured and killed?and is back under house arrest. Last week, Than Shwe replaced Khin Nyunt with Lieut. General Soe Win, a known hard-liner believed to have ordered the brutal attack on Suu Kyi's followers in May. "The removal of Khin Nyunt demonstrates that Than Shwe wasn't interested in 99% of power," says a senior Western diplomat in Bangkok. "He wanted...
Miller views himself with the same brutal candor. The screenwriter, Kitty's husband (Matthew Modine), is just one of many satellites orbiting Kitty's imploding star, wanly resigned to a marriage all but over--and to the screams Kitty emits the minute he enters her room. Together with After the Fall, Finishing the Picture completes a portrait of a marriage that can take its place beside Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as one of the most ruthless and revealing in American theater history. For this celebrated, embattled playwright just turned 89, Marilyn is still an inspiration...
...fighting to reclaim the wedge. He called Kerry "a liberal Senator from Massachusetts" and conjured liberalism incarnate, senior Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, three times. Bush brought up his own support for the anti--gay-marriage amendment and used the word marriage 11 times. He called "partial-birth" abortion "a brutal practice." For his part, Kerry turned in the most overtly religious presidential-debate performance--for either a Democrat or Republican--in memory. Although only a few months ago he was reluctant to discuss his faith--it's "personal" and "private," Kerry told TIME in March--he invoked the Almighty...