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...ongoing mayhem in the region may be rooted in oil politics, says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There is suspicion that elements in the Russian security forces have given support to attacks on Shevardnadze," says Meier. Part of the reason might be that Western oil companies plan to route an Azerbaijan-Turkey oil pipeline through Georgia rather than Russia. "Russian interests would like to have some control over the pipeline, and Shevardnadze is regarded as a guarantor of Western interests in the region...
...never really faltered. When you put it all together--forest fires in Indonesia, typhoons in Japan, torrential rains in East Africa, unusually powerful hurricanes in the Pacific, flash floods in Peru and Ecuador, freak snowstorms in Mexico--this El Nino has already unleashed more than its share of epic mayhem. But precisely because its reach is so long and its effects so broadly distributed around the globe, it has been difficult for most people to appreciate the full force of the beast that underlies...
...ongoing currency mayhem and turmoil in the stock markets of Asia were, in my view, the result of a carefully calculated plot by bloodthirsty speculators. They prove Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's accusation that the outside world, particularly the West, was trying to destroy Malaysia's economy. With Asia battered, I wonder who's next? CHEE KEONG WOON Petaling Jaya, Malaysia...
Finally, the story culminates in a crazy scene of destruction, mayhem and death, that introduces more new characters than it uses old ones. The instanity that ensues crosses the line from the meaningfully absurd to the violently and almost tiringly preposterous...
Having noted the overly-abstruse parts of the film, one is still able to appreciate the magnificence of the reminder of its efforts. Perhaps the most startling of Berlin Alexanderplatz's metaphors is the relation of the murder and mayhem within Biberkopf's life to the carnage within a slaughterhouse; although this parallel is explored in earlier parts of the film as well, it finds its most successful expression in Biberkopf's psychotic hallucinations. In one particular scene, the nude bodies of Biberkopf and his lover Mieze are tied to an assembly line, and sliced open as though they...