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...came when guards found a prisoner unconscious in his cell. Then a second prisoner was discovered frothing at the mouth. Both had swallowed large amounts of an antianxiety drug. Not long after, 10 guards were lured into a medium-security bunkhouse where a detainee was apparently getting ready to hang himself with a bedsheet. In the ensuing melee, prisoners wielded broken fan blades, light fixtures and pieces of metal against riot police, who fired pepper spray and rubber pellets, leaving several lightly injured on both sides. It was the most serious incident since terrorist suspects were first taken to Gitmo...
...jihadi terrorism, was to instill an almost religious reverence for sacrifice and martyrdom in his army?all his fighters wear cyanide capsules around their necks. For the Tigers, many of whom are recruited as children, Prabhakaran is akin to a demi-god. Photographs of his chubby, affable-looking image hang on almost every wall in Tiger territory, and stories about the kindness and wisdom of The Leader abound. Not an articulate man, Prabhakaran, 51, uses secrecy to build his mystique, rarely making public appearances. Many analysts see him as the single biggest obstacle to peace. "He's a warrior," says...
...Most recommended that he do it. But when he also asked what they would do if the Iranians seized the embassy in retaliation, none answered. And when the thing actually happened, no one on any side was sure of exactly what to do. The triumphant but clueless students would hang on to the 52 frightened, angry Americans for 444 days, all the while making hapless attempts to prove that the embassy had been a cockpit of intrigue and espionage. Although for the most part the hostages were not subjected to torture, their detention and humiliation were in themselves an outrage...
...Granted, the best thing about a multipart, multi-author film is usually the credits. The various segments don't hang together; often they hang separately. But with its grand theme, Paris, Je t'aime establishes a tone - of love, in bloom or suspended animation - that for the most part is sustained from one segment to the next. This is a dégustation du chef to savor, a tasting menu of cogent attitudes and poignant images...
...opening of the MQB, President Chirac's $278-million monument to non-Western cultures next to the Eiffel Tower on the Seine, the stars would seem to be aligned for Aboriginal art. Yunupingu was one of eight indigenous Australian artists invited to create work for the museum-not to hang on its walls, but rather to be woven through the fabric of Jean Nouvel's visionary architecture. For indigenous art curators Hetti Perkins and Brenda Croft, it was a chance to define something that has remained by its very essence indefinable...