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...economic boom and, particularly outside Baghdad, the first glimmers of political freedom. But there were also large numbers of unemployed young men and widespread concerns about security. This month we retraced our footsteps, often interviewing the same people we met on our previous journey, to gauge the extent of change. We found that the country has indeed moved forward but that this progress has been matched by a corresponding rise in anxiety. The transition in the coming months, as the U.S. hands power to Iraqis and the nation's ethnic and religious groups try to find ways to coexist peacefully...
There are three fatal flaws that damage Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for nonbelievers: almost no characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a piñata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear...
...were being published. “The [radiation] levels reported in the American media made no sense,” he says. “It’s incredible what non-technical people will believe.” Using Russian reports, Wilson was able to determine the true extent of the crisis. In 1988, he made a documentary, Back to Chernobyl, which aired on public television...
Agreement had been reached, though, by postponing resolution of contentious issues such as the fate of the militias, the extent of federalism linking Iraq's three main groups into a single nation and the role of Islam in the new state. Council members ultimately found it less difficult to adopt an unprecedented Western-style bill of rights--guaranteeing freedom of speech, religion, privacy and assembly, and an independent judiciary--than to decide who gets to take power next. But Bremer was full of confidence that the question of how a new government will be formed could be thrashed...
There are three fatal flaws that damage Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for nonbelievers: almost no characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a piñata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear...