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...months of this year, compared with 66 in all of 2005. When it comes to journalists?46 have been killed on Arroyo's watch?the murder rate is second only to Iraq's. Last week seven major U.S. companies with operations in the Philippines, including Wal-Mart and Gap, were moved to write a letter urging Arroyo to protect workers, especially union members, at their local subcontractors...
...fire in Lebanon last summer. Then there are the shopworn policies the Prime Minister is advancing to fix Iraq: "a strong political compact to bring all parties together, with clear commitment to nonsectarian government and to democracy." The international community should also "build Iraqi governing capability" and "plug any gaps in training, equipment and command in control in the Iraqi army." Sure - and while we're at it, why not just ask for world peace? Coalition forces simply can't figure out how to turn these bromides into reality in Iraq, where chaos and carnage steadily mount. A gap between...
Tomlin is the chief American practitioner of the pop-sounding "praise and worship" music that has replaced traditional hymns in congregations looking for a younger crowd. (Recently some churches introduced the U2-charist, a Communion service set to the music of U2.) "We've been closing the gap between what you would hear in church and on a rock radio station," says Matt Lundgren, worship leader at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. "Artists like Chris Tomlin help bridge the gap more and more...
Harvard added a fourth-quarter touchdown on a 26-yard pass from Pizzotti to Mazza, closing the final gap at 34-13, but that was far too little and far too late to start a Crimson comeback...
...husband competes to prove his superior virility through a series of contrived tests of masculinity.What differentiates “High and Low” and “Knife in the Water” from modern attempts to wrestle with the issues they discuss (besides the language gap and the prevalence of color film), is the care with which the directors treat their films. Today, we seem to regard bigger and faster as inherently better, with more dialogue, scenes, and spectacular effects popping up in film after film.In a New York Times piece on the movie, critic Manohla Dargis quoted...