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...death squads in Baghdad [Aug. 29], omitted an important conclusion. The Bush Administration has indeed put unprecedented effort into the war on terrorism, especially in Iraq. But instead of quenching the passion for jihad, the Administration's heavy-handed actions have stoked it. Worse yet, the centuries-old, long-dormant hatred between Shi'ites and Sunnis threatens to spill into a horrendous civil war, with wider implications outside Iraq. And one thing is sure: appointing the same exiled career politicians to power isn't going to solve anything. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Bangalore, India A Deadly Policy The killing of Jean Charles...
...court. "The agenda he laid down in his first years on the Court were a preview of what he finally achieved in the later years," says University of Virginia law professor Dick Howard. "He knew what he wanted to do early on, reawakening constitutional ideas that had been dormant for decades...
...revenge drama: the general Maximus (Russell Crowe) has been disgraced--and his family slaughtered--and he spends the next 2 1/2 hours savoring his just deserts. Into this familiar mold Scott and his screenwriters poured so much intelligence, such vigorous picturizing of military assaults and gladiatorial entertainments that this dormant genre was reborn. The fatal "games" Maximus fights in the Colosseum might be a modern extreme sport or a Vin Diesel melodrama reimagined as art. Superb acting certainly helps. Offscreen, Crowe may seem a lout; onscreen, he radiates the maturity of a strong, scarred man--a star suitable for epics...
YOUR SPECIAL REPORT ON "THE TRUE Lincoln" [July 4], besides being superbly written, renewed my dormant sense of patriotism. Although in recent years I have felt great discouragement over the direction the U.S. seems headed in, reading about my favorite President was a good shot in the arm, like experiencing the Fourth of July fireworks...
...Ronald Reagan signed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, making it a federal crime, under certain circumstances, to reveal the identity of a covert U.S. operative. The act remained mostly dormant until special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald was appointed in December 2003 to determine whether anyone in the Bush Administration broke the law by telling journalists that Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, an opponent of the Iraq war, was a CIA officer...