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...years, Carlos Castano and his paramilitary death squads have sown terror among civilians in rural areas of Colombia [WORLD, Nov. 27]. Castano's United Self-Defense Forces, the self-appointed exterminators of leftist rebels, label civilians as guerrilla sympathizers and thus make them "legitimate" targets of brutal attacks. Your article's semiheroic depiction of Castano failed to mention that he is responsible for the murder of dozens of peasants, indigenous leaders, union workers, academics, journalists and human-rights activists. JAUME VIDAL CASANOVAS ANA MARIA GOMEZ LOPEZ Washington...
...habit of disrupting social expectations, combined with her recent lecture series in the U.S. on the concept of art and her sexuality, it is almost tempting to label this controversial literary personality the 21st century's Oscar Wilde. But there's a tremendous problem with this potential classification, for Wilde could write and Winterson cannot. She may have personality, but The Powerbook certainly doesn...
This incorrect label misrepresents the concerns of people commonly called "pro-choice" or "reproductive rights activists" by foregrounding only the most controversial aspect of the work they do. While choosing not to call pro-choice activists by the names we assign ourselves, your author did see fit to call activists who might be called "anti-choice" or "anti-abortion" by their preferred label, "pro-life...
...pigeonhole my music, which is for me the most important thing. I don't have any description-the owner of [German record label] MFS was the inventor of this "wet and hard" description. It fits my sound because the people are dancing, they are wet and the sound is quite hard as well. That's one description, but I just call it good music. I give a shit for styles, genres, whatever. I play everything, but it has to be good music...
Dash wanted to bolster this tiny club--by adding at least one, himself, to their number. While a freshman at the University of Southern California, he launched a successful hip-hop record label. When the Internet began to take off, he used the profits to start DME. He self-financed the company for the first 4 1/2 years, raising a couple of hundred thousand dollars from family and friends...