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...from a subservient distance, as if Jesus were too magisterial to approach within 100 paces. On the soundtrack, the heavenly choir trills away earnestly. The Passion segment (44 mins.) couldn't be less so. Connoisseurs of intentional camp treasure "TGSET" as the movie where John Wayne, as a Roman centurion, glowers and says, "Truly this was the Son of God." Pilgrim...
...command was killed or missing, the accused might get away with their crimes. But we now have an opportunity to prosecute the remorseless Slobodan Milosevic. His acts were worse than those of Osama bin Laden. The genocide and rapes will harm people for generations to come. GURKAN HASIRCIOGLU Centurion, South Africa...
Instead of being taken hostage by terrorists, I am at the mercy of the instructors at Centurion Risk Assessment Services, a British company that offers "hostile environment courses" for journalists and aid workers headed for politically unstable regions. Conducted by former British marine and army officers at a training camp an hour from London, the one-day course teaches me to identify mines hidden in fields, explosives rigged in packages and booby traps disguised as everyday objects. I have learned to drag an injured colleague to safety before starting first aid, and I discovered that by counting the seconds between...
...eager to prepare them properly. "To send a journalist who has not been trained in how to behave in these very dangerous parts of the world is complete folly," says Chris Cramer, president of cnn International, whose organization uses AKE, a U.K. company that offers courses similar to Centurion?s. Cramer should know. While working for the BBC in 1980, he was taken hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. "I can tell you that the real thing is not unlike the hostage simulation these courses offer. They help prepare you for the worst...
...themselves in chemical and biological attacks. Ian Day, the firm?s training manager, says 27 BBC journalists attended his two-day course in London in the first week of October alone, while another 17 took a course at the BBC offices in Jerusalem. Reuters has sent 368 journalists to Centurion?s five-day course, which incorporates two hours of chemical warfare training. Paul Rees, director of Centurion, says clients pay around $1,900 each for the residential course. Says Reuters video news editor Rodney Pinder: "It is worth it to Reuters if it saves even one life...