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...notoriously factionalized, and drawing conclusions about Iranian intentions based on Iranian operations in Iraq isn't so simple. It's been clear for years that the Iranians are exerting influence in Iraq; the surprise would be if they weren't. Even after Sunday's briefing the nature and extent of Iranian military aid to Iraqi militants remains difficult to assess. "It's plausible deniability," the intelligence analyst explained...
...dictator falls, a country is set�free and in the inevitable spasm of liberation, some folks get wistful about the bad old days. It happened in Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down in 1989. They called it Ostalgie--Eastalgia--and in 2003 it suffused the hit film Good Bye, Lenin! But for the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ostalgie is a sickness in need of treatment. His urgent, exceptional first feature, The Lives of Others, is the ideal antidote...
...invited to add pieces to the core collection of works. Two such figures contacted for the project’s Harvard debut were Alfred Guzzetti, Hooker Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard, and Boston-based artist Marilyn Arsem.These additions ensure that the exhibit reflects local tastes to some extent. “You’re not always getting the same sort of ‘New York artists’ or artists in textbooks,” explains Lambert-Beatty. Lambert-Beatty is one of the people responsible for bringing the EVR exhibit to the Carpenter Center...
Published in 2005, the report greatly expanded on the official version of the extent of repression in Chile. The Commission took testimony from 35,868 individuals who were tortured or imprisoned improperly. Of those, 27,255 were verified and included. An unknown number of victims did not come forward to give testimony. Scholars estimate that the real number is between 150,000 and 300,000 victims...
...Detention House. The pneumonia marked the beginning of serious physical deterioration. The prolonged lack of nutritious food, sunshine and fresh air made full recovery impossible and caused the body's aging process to speed up. It also reduced my mental powers to such an extent that I often found it difficult to concentrate on one subject for long. The prospect of losing my ability to think logically and analytically frightened me more than the fact that my hair was falling out by the handful, my gums bled and I had lost a great deal of weight...