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...naif with bad taste in beaux. A carnal Candide, a blithe arsonist of men's hearts, she has no calculation in her, just a knowing or beckoning smile. Her face makes a kind of smile when she's crying too, as if even the pain a man can inflict on her is a game played according to her rules. Great screen acting is hard to define but a cinch to spot. That's Brooks in Pandora. Hers is the art that conceals art, the beauty that reveals...
...biggest terrorist threat to Australia homegrown or from overseas? It's not a sort of mathematical equation. People could come here with a self-contained capacity to inflict harm, as we've seen. People could come here and try and get local supporters; we've seen that too. In Melbourne and Sydney, 22 people were arrested between November 2005 and March 2006 and charged with terrorism offences in Australia. If those prosecutions are successful, that would be an example of the straight-out homegrown type. I don't think you can say one of those three possibilities is greater than...
According to Chertoff, Al Qaeda shares similar characteristics with conventional wartime enemies because both have clearly defined political aims, attempt to acquire territory, and are able to inflict damage of wide scope—“three fundamental elements of the current struggle that put it in war,” Chertoff said...
...Whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded. ... I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words...
...commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to hold several hundred people in an illegal prison at Guantánamo Bay. Don't Americans realize the damage they inflict on their own image, democracy and ultimately Western civilization? If we ever come to a "clash of civilizations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined by others, we will owe that exclusively to the hypocrisy and criminal behavior of the U.S. government. Roberto Hollnagel São Paulo...