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...different humans. On U.S. TV it means press conferences with soldiers who have hand and foot injuries and interviews with POWs' families, but little blood. On Arab and Muslim TV it means dead bodies and mourning. History will have to sort out many points on which Western and Middle Eastern TV differ: how effective the allied war effort is, how warmly Iraqis will receive its results and which media are most accurate and neutral. What we do know is that war is a horrible thing in which people die horribly. So far, there is no question which networks own that...
...morning in September 1960, demonstrators on a chartered sightseeing boat waved placards: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE; STALIN DROPPED DEAD. HOW ABOUT YOU? Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging had an apocalyptic implication...
...Then his convoy started taking fire from the direction of the van, and Talraas was hit in the leg. "It felt like something had snapped my bone in half," says the young soldier from his hospital bed at Tallil Air Base in south eastern Iraq...
...films and a judge during his years as one of Turkey’s best known political activists and writers. Three of his later films, Road, The Wall and The Herd, will be screened this weekend in a series jointly presented by Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Harvard Film Archive. The films are a merciless attack on Turkey’s government, which Guney considered fascist, and its culture, which he considered primitive and self-destructive. Yol, which won Guney a Palme D’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, follows five...
...motives are not entirely selfless, of course. His stance means that not only does his relatively small country carry disproportionate leverage in the war on terror, but also his influence in Washington translates into real clout in Europe. The European anti-Saddam coalition--Britain, Spain, Italy and the Eastern bloc--could emerge as the dominant force in the European Union in the next decade, edging out the Franco-German axis, with Blair at its head. Those are high stakes in geopolitics; and Blair, in that respect, is as ambitious as Bush. By being the indispensable nation's indispensable ally, Blair...