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Members of the IST say they wonder how much information is beneficial to share...
Vautin is the leader of the Incident Support Team (IST), a body created by the CMP to handle multi-school emergencies...
...Israeli forces patrolling the camp; he's there to tell the story of his life. On five consecutive nights last March, a German-born Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker named Raid Sabbah interviewed the masked man, a 29-year-old he calls Said. In his new book, Der Tod ist ein Geschenk (Death is a Gift, Droemer; 253 pages), Sabbah offers a rare glimpse inside the mind of a suicide bomber. "I wanted to describe the situation of the Palestinians," Sabbah says, "and create understanding for - but not approval of - the motives of a person like Said." Don't pick...
...oddity about this crusading pioneer was that he was a bit of a racist. Or, anyway, a shade-ist. Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense...
STEFFI GRAF and ANDRE AGASSI, tennis' high-profile love match--thank you very much!--announced last week that "Steffi ist schwanger!" (That's "pregnant," for those of you who don't speak German.) "This is a very exciting time for us," said Agassi in an official statement. "We are so happy to have been blessed with this gift." Graf, 32, and Agassi, 31, have been together since 1999. Rumors of the pregnancy started flying at this year's Wimbledon, where Graf kept an unusually low profile. The German newspaper Bild, quoting Graf's mother Hannah, says the couple are expecting...