Word: doomsday
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...been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended to Osama bin Laden through the al-Qaeda leader's interviews and doomsday warnings. The company's executives say that bin Laden's words are genuine scoops and, defending their professionalism, cite the network's battle scars--its offices in Kabul and Baghdad came under fire from U.S. forces...
...strange thing has happened since Sept. 11. Moore and some of his counterparts in other rural and small states have become convinced that their turf is just as threatened as Washington, New York and Chicago. One recent morning, Moore rattled off his doomsday scenarios: "We have two major interstate highways, and a significant proportion of the traffic is hazardous materials. We have two major railroads. Also, Wyoming has major mining, major electrical generating plants and coal-bed methane. Any one of those becomes a vulnerability for a terrorist." A former FBI agent, Moore works in an office decorated with...
...Blue Note’s back catalog in Shades of Blue and fashioned himself a rapper on helium by essentially sampling and speeding up his own voice in Quasimoto’s The Unseen; the latter reworked tacky Eighties hits and cartoon themes into eerily poignant hooks on Operation Doomsday. Both are bold enough to let their music get lost within the crates...
Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss
...province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know whom to trust anymore," says one peasant manning a makeshift roadblock he and his fellow villagers have set up to keep outsiders from entering his hometown. "We have to protect ourselves...