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...Even in confinement, he remains a powerful symbol for pro-democracy activists. Protesters regularly gather in front of his empty residence in Islamabad to launch fresh demonstrations. Each time they are met with an increasingly violent police response. During a demonstration on Feb. 9, riot police added a water cannon to their usual barrage of batons and tear-gas shells, but the protesters were undaunted. "We are on the streets not for politics but for rule of law," said Naila Zahid, one of the protesters, her eyes red and streaming from the tear gas. "And we will remain...
...Stars including Johansson, Hu, Walsh, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta and Nick Cannon also got together and created a pro-Obama video with The Black Eyed Peas, "Yes We Can," which is currently the top YouTube download...
...gritty cop show revealed itself to be something much bigger. The first season humanized the drug soldiers without condoning them--following them home, speaking their language and showing how they were used as cannon fodder. And it showed how cops who want to do painstaking police work are frustrated by bosses who prefer cheap, fast street busts that boost arrest statistics but simply move the crime around. Each season afterward focused on another dimension of Baltimore life (see chart)--the working class, the politics, the schools--pulling back like a camera on a crane to show a complex ecosystem, with...
Rambo CELLULOID GOLD Oh. Snap. We open on a jungle, somewhere in Action-Movie Asia. A synthesizer hums. A cannon fires, and we’re in a village where Action-Movie Asians are screaming and dying. But then we see those big, stubby fingers, fondling a tiny crucifix. And then come words that every voiceover-man would kill to say: “He is a legend of war. A soldier without a country. You know his name. And you know...” Pause. “...what he’s capable...
...headed into the three-day visit to Algeria Monday, the usually combative Sarkozy and his team took pains to quell the rising tensions between France and its former colonial possession, and wave off the anti-Semitic comments in particular as the uttering of a loose cannon seeking to advance an anti-French agenda. Rather than canceling the trip, Elysée officials said Sarkozy planned to press ahead to help restore bilateral relations between the two countries - and sign nearly $5 billion in business contracts prepared for finalization for the likes of energy companies Total and Gaz de France. "These...