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...splinter group, the bombs mark a troubling departure in tactics. They are the first by the p.k.k. or any of its offshoots to target civilians and tourists on such a scale in recent years, threatening an $18 billion tourism industry. "We are facing an al-Qaeda?like terrorist gang," an editorial in the newspaper Hürriyet said the next day. "[They] take not only people's lives, but also their jobs and the bread from their hands." The blasts could provoke a change in thinking in how to deal with the p.k.k. Turkey had been urging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Targets, Old Conflicts | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...SCREEN DRAMA Real-life events inspire three new films: the Rocky-like Invincible (out now); Gridiron Gang, starring the Rock, right (out Sept. 15); and We Are Marshall, about the 1970 air crash that killed most of the M.U. team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piling On | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...that the war is more one of control of people and territory than of religion. If changing your name protects you from attack, then you can't tell your enemy by looking at him or even knowing what he believes. The agony in Baghdad seems more like territorial gang warfare than religious strife, more about revenge than an attempt to make people believe in a different theology. Mark Larsen Grants Pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 2006 | 8/31/2006 | See Source »

...through the first-year foreign language requirement. 3. During reading period, you will spend hours here surfing Facebook.com and watching Sam Teller ’08 climb on desks. Lampoon: 1. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. 2. Gang of emaciated white males who amuse themselves writing penis jokes and starting fires inside their castle. 3. Campus virgin support center...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...About a week ago, a band of skinheads beat to pulp a Tajik boy in a dacha Moscow village where I live, while another gang badly stabbed two Dagestanis on a suburban train. And many of these cases will never even be registered with the authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Russia's Racism Problem | 8/23/2006 | See Source »

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