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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gulf War I may have been a war made for TV, but Gulf War II has been a war made by TV. Knowing this campaign would be broadcast by Arab media like al-Jazeera - likely to show it in the goriest, least flattering light - the Pentagon chose targets and strategies to reduce blowback in the Muslim world, even at some military risk. After U.S. troops entered Baghdad, the war continued to be waged through TV. George Bush and Tony Blair took to Iraq's commandeered airwaves, press secretary Ari Fleischer began a White House briefing by announcing exactly when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worth a Thousand Words | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

...play itself is Shakespeare's goriest and one of his earliest, the first his works to gain him wide recognition and the first to be published. Although it concerns a web of revenge and desire that eventually involves murder, rape, insanity and fake insanity, cannibalism, torture and the on-screen severing of virtually every body part imaginable, this version intelligently focuses not on violence and revenge themselves, but on how people respond to it. So although virtually every character is involved in one act of violence or another, the motivation of the act itself remains particularly personal...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taymor's Tricky Titus a Triumph | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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