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...tactical victory on Feb. 11, by preventing the opposition from organizing antigovernment demonstrations on the anniversary of the revolution, but beneath the surface little has changed. The government lacks legitimacy and is increasingly resorting to force to stay in power. Infighting at the élite level is becoming more brutal, with wives and children of opposition leaders being beaten and tortured by government-sanctioned militias...
...Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam, about which reporter Michael Herr had written so devastatingly in Dispatches. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...been a brutal week for Harlem politicians. On March 3, Charlie Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and 20-term representative from New York's 15th district, announced he would temporarily relinquish his stewardship of the powerful tax-writing body in the wake of an ethics investigation that found he violated protocol by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean. The decision came on the heels of scandal-scarred New York Governor David Paterson's announcement that he will not run for re-election in the fall. The synchronized setbacks of two longtime Harlem leaders have...
...caused in large part by the President's promise that the current, hopelessly complicated system would remain the same for the 80% of the public that's satisfied with the insurance it has. Furthermore, the late-blooming Republican alternatives, like the Medicare privatization plan offered by Ryan, are so brutal and extreme that the vast majority of Republicans would never vote for them, lest they be trampled by a frothing mob of senior citizens. Of course, no Democrat tried to cross-examine Ryan on his Medicare plan: "So, Congressman, you want to give the elderly vouchers to explore the health...
...every so often, a knee to the face. Ultimate Fighting does have a set of rules to which all play must adhere, but even when the prohibitions against eye gouging and against kicking the head of a grounded opponent are accounted for, the result is still a fierce and brutal bout. An onlooker of sports could, over time, feasibly point out that the recent surge of interest in this sport is not altogether different from the popularity of professional wrestling, but there is, in fact, a key difference between the two. Whereas a great part of the fun of professional...