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...respect she had established in her work as a fiercely independent chronicler of the brutal conflict in the North Caucasus was evident during the 2002 hostage debacle when Chechen terrorists seized a Moscow theater and hundreds of people inside. Politkovskaya had been one of the very few people allowed by the Chechen group to enter the theater to negotiate on behalf of the hostages. During the Beslan School hostage crisis in 2004, Politkovskaya was badly poisoned (by state agents, she alleged), just as she was on the verge of brokering talks between senior Russian officials and Chechen separatist leaders...
...royal court where the King and Queen blithely discarded unwanted retainers like used Kleenex. Even Carville's merry band of consultants was tossed after the 1994 congressional-election debacle. As a result, several of those discarded, like George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich and Dick Morris, exacted their revenge in brutal memoirs...
...somehow rage, an inevitable byproduct of constrained sorrow, yields prophecy and deeper insight. In “The Great New Wonderful,” Satish’s anger boils over and he kicks his disarming colleague and neighbor Avi (Naseeruddin Shah) to the ground—a stunningly brutal act. Then, as Avi stands, he delivers a simple but crucial lesson contained in all 9/11 art: “Life is very short, my friend. We should all know that by now.”—Columnist Kyle L. .K. McAuley can be reached at kmcauley@fas.harvard.edu...
What is the source of his extraordinary calm? Yes, he's in a relatively good place right now, with his Hizballah proxies basking in a military draw with Israel. Yes, the U.S. is bogged down in a brutal war in Iraq. But Ahmadinejad is still unpopular at home, the Iranian economy is battered, and his major foes, Israel and the U.S., far outgun...
...lowest point of South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon's two-year tenure came in June 2004, when a Korean translator working in Iraq was captured and beheaded on video by insurgents. The brutal act enraged the South Korean public, many of whom opposed the planned dispatch of further Korean troops to Iraq, and much of that anger was directed squarely at Ban and the Foreign Ministry. Taxis in Seoul refused to pick up foreign service officers, and there were public calls for Ban's resignation. But instead of panicking, Ban calmly announced that he would be reassessing...