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...police—led by Brenda’s brother (Ron Eldard, “Black Hawk Down”)—immediately decide to blockade the projects until the denizens give up the ‘jacker of their own volition. Their logic is impeccable—apparently this happened once before. So it’s sure to happen again...
...documentary’s most harrowing scenes occurs at a weapons trade show. Representatives from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and a swarm of other arms companies routinely host such shows, during which they hawk their killing wares to Pentagon officials and military advisers. The atmosphere of these events is no different than that of a boat or auto show, down to the balloon-sculpting clowns and stage magicians...
...poor people will finally be heard. Manuel David Matos Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. The newly elected leftist governments in South America should be a cause for concern by the Bush Administration for obvious reasons. President Bush and the cia, however, should take note that the world is watching like a hawk. No meddling and cia-sponsored attempts to overthrow legitimately elected governments will be tolerated. It is not the '70s or '80s anymore. Play fair. Coenie Kukkuk Pretoria The Abode of Souls David van Biema's essay on the roman Catholic Church's changing its teaching on limbo took me back...
...knew they were witnessing the end of an era?and, perhaps, the vanishing of the country's best hope for a durable settlement of the Palestinian dispute. At 77, Sharon was among the few surviving leaders with links to Israel's founding fathers. Sharon's credentials as an uncompromising hawk meant the public trusted him to make painful concessions for peace, even if "peace" for him involved imposing territorial boundaries without the negotiated assent of the Palestinians. That process began last August, with Sharon's decision to withdraw Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. Although...
...closest political allies - Olmert quickly drew the Kadima leadership around himself. The former mayor of Jerusalem is also a three-decade political veteran from a family involved in Likud and its predecessor, Herut, since even before the creation of the State of Israel. Like Sharon, he is a longstanding hawk who has moved steadily towards the center, even winking at the left, over the past decade. Indeed, over the past two years, before they quit Likud to form Kadima, Olmert's role had often been to float trial balloons for his boss, articulating controversial positions on ceding territory...