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Immediately after 9/11--when seeing anything other than evil behind terrorism got Bill Maher and Susan Sontag lambasted--there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...easier over the course of the summer, and I expect it will get easier the more I do it. It’s a simple matter of looking at the ceiling, the floor, and anywhere but straight ahead at the unclothed flesh in front...
...serving in three apartheid-enforcing governments, ''would agree with me today.'' Still, De Klerk was not a born reformer. During his rise through the ranks of the National Party, he allied himself with its verkrampte, or ''closed- minded conservative,'' camp. He was a pragmatic politician, eager to press the flesh and do the deal. He proved cautious in his personal life as well. He married and stayed married to his college sweetheart. An earlier generation of South African leaders liked to relax by hunting big game; De Klerk took up golf. One thing that rankled Mandela's supporters throughout...
...clarity though, it’s not sex and violence that we’re missing. Certainly this year’s “House of Wax” remake was plenty gory, and the neo-slashers of the last ten years have featured supple amounts of nubile flesh. If that’s all I was after I would just watch “Cherry Falls” or “I Know What You Did Last Summer” or straight-to-video gems like “Frankenfish.”The missing link...
...tracks), this doesn’t bode well. Clearly, the success of the EPC’s proposal to cap requirements—the only one of its recommendations we support—will hinge on the successful implementation of an exemption procedure. For future drafts, the EPC should flesh out this procedure with an eye towards placating its critics. But it must not sacrifice the main goal of the proposal, as fewer concentration requirements would have broad-ranging positive effects for all Harvard students...