Word: gunness
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...SMOKING GUN? The satellite photos show hide-and-seek but require expert interpretation. The phone calls are suspicious, but only one is damning. The drawings of mobile labs are still just drawings...
...North London housing project and broke through emceeing at "open mic" nights. Her debut album, A Little Deeper, mixing U.K. garage and R. and B., was a crossover smash, wowing critics and beating the Streets to the highly respected Mercury Music Prize. Her lyrics denounce the macho posturing and gun culture often associated with the rap scene. Last month she played at an anti-gun event in Birmingham and appeared last week at an antiwar demo in London's Hyde Park. On her hit single It Takes More she raps, "Who gives a damn about the ice on your hand...
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Michael Moore’s quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Bowling for Columbine screens...
...food tasters, all for good reason. Iraqi diplomats say Saddam is convinced that Bush wants him dead, and so any exile scenario would have to assure him that he would never find himself in the sights of a Predator drone or a war-crimes tribunal. Even with a gun pointed at his head, says a French official, "it's difficult to imagine Saddam throwing up his arms, saying 'All right, I'll go,' and agreeing to live a life of fear, distrust and, who knows, maybe betrayal, prison and humiliation in exile...
...fading light, two flatbed trucks trundle slowly up the highway from Basra to Baghdad, bearing a precarious cargo: a pair of Soviet-era T-52 tanks, their long gun barrels pointed defiantly at the sky. Rumor has it that Iraqi heavy armor is deliberately being moved around in full display to allay public concerns about the army's fighting capabilities. If that is indeed the intention, then the T-52s are being hauled in the wrong direction. The folks who most need that kind of reassurance are the citizens of Basra...