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After years of relative invisibility, the dispute has returned to the world's agenda. U.S. and Indian officials believe that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group formed in Muzaffarabad, planned the Nov. 26 terrorist strike on Mumbai. The attack left 171 people dead and many Indians baying for revenge against the terrorists and their patrons; New Delhi says Pakistan actively supports and encourages groups like Lashkar. Although technically banned in Pakistan, Lashkar is thought to be working under the aegis of its charitable wing and is at least tolerated by Islamabad...
...River”), and won the Nobel Prize (too late, he claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he received the compliment of an accomplished warts-and-all biography (lesser writers receive praise while they’re living, and are damned when they’re dead). But he is miserable. Every time he writes a novel he claims it will be his last—because novels and literature are dead, he says each time...
...prove Hobbes’s rage-fueled philosophical vision: that man cares only about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms off, murder their compatriots to survive, and still end up dead. “Punisher: War Zone:” Not only does the protagonist get to realize his sadistic fantasies, but the film’s creators realize their own upon the audience, as they cause it all sorts of pain. As USA Today’s reviewer...
...pretty much always count on The Mars Volta to do something you can’t understand, be it Latinate lyrics or utterly insane concept albums like this one. “Bedlam” took its inspiration from a Ouija board and the contact with the dead it supposedly facilitates. Tracks like “Ouroboros” and “Askepios,” however, seem to make reference to figures in Ancient Greek lore. Though I have yet to decipher the connection between the biblical Goliath and these Greek figures, I can still appreciate The Mars...
...time, the shuttle had flown 290 people, and out of those 14 were dead - nearly one in 20," says Scott Horowitz, a four-time shuttle veteran who designed the Ares 1, one of the new boosters. "We needed something that was an order of magnitude safer...