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SAUDI ARABIA Improperly Dressed Interior Minister Prince Nayef defended Saudi religious police after press reports accused the mutaween of causing the deaths of 15 schoolgirls in a fire. The newspaper stories alleged that as the girls, aged between 13 and 17, tried to escape their burning school they were pushed back into the flames by police from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice because they were not wearing their black robes and headscarves. Prince Nayef claimed the police were there "to ensure that the girls were not subjected to any kind of mistreatment outside...
Just beyond the last checkpoint, where Georgian Interior Forces yet again register visitors, a black BMW waited on the beat-up road. It belonged to Aslanbek, a self-described Chechen refugee and representative of the inhabitants of Duisi, the largest village in the Pankisi Gorge, a remote Georgian valley that hit the headlines in February after the U.S. announced it was an al-Qaeda base area. "Welcome to Duisi," he said, asking two journalists the purpose of their visit. To discover why Washington was so worried about the Gorge, we answered delicately. "No one here will answer that question...
...Interior Minister Claudio Scajola has been forced to respond to criticism that Biagi had not recently been assigned government bodyguards. His escorts had been removed as part of a reduction of cover for individual domestic targets when law-enforcement resources were shifted to the fight against terrorism following Sept. 11. After repeatedly receiving death threats as the debate over labor reforms escalated, Biagi had pleaded for his protection to be restored. After the murder, Scajola opened an internal investigation as to why protection wasn't reinstated soon enough, but nonetheless said that even bodyguards cannot guarantee that terrorists...
...chapel was built by Enrico Scrovegni to atone for the crimes of his father, a notorious usurer, and in 1303 Giotto was commissioned to decorate it. He covered the interior with a fresco narrative of the lives of Jesus and his mother, adding figures of the Virtues and Vices and a Last Judgment. "Giotto was a genius," says Professor Giuseppe Basile of Rome's Central Restoration Institute, who oversaw the restoration. "He planned the location of scenes to fit the chapel's architecture precisely. He developed a form of perspective. His figures had natural movements and expressions. The stories themselves...
When Andrea Dworkin speaks, her voice quivers with the fervor of reckoning. “Women,” she says, a hand clutched to her chest, “want to have an interior life. Women want to be able to know what introspection is. Women want to have a self that’s real, not one that’s torn into little pieces and thrown out with the garbage. Women refuse self-annihilation...