Word: missioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while his bandmates faced forward; six months later, Curtis killed himself at the age of 23. Now Corbijn, whose photographs...
Corbijn is of the same mind. He really does seem to have completed his musical mission, and perhaps exorcised some ghosts along the way. He's mulling a few scripts and ideas, "none of which are music-related," he says, and he is so determined to start a new chapter that he now plans to leave England and move back to the Netherlands. "I came for Joy Division, I've made my movie," he says. Granted, it took 28 years, but Corbijn still has the time and the passion to recast his powerful vision...
...situation is not improving? -Antoinette Vermilye, Crans-près-céligny, Switzerland[Sudanese President] Omar al-Bashir doesn't have any incentive to do anything else. We can't sanction Sudan because we don't do trade with it. And al-Bashir can frame any peace-keeping mission as a Western invasion of another Muslim country. So people like the Chinese, who do business with these guys, have to say, "We're not going to trade with you anymore. You guys are going to have to drink oil." That's what it's going to come down...
...they be held accountable? If you've ever hired contractors to remodel your kitchen, you know their interests are not identical to yours. It's hard to know whether Blackwater's hired guns are trigger-happy, but it's easy to see how their limited mission of protecting individuals could conflict with a larger military goal that depends on convincing Iraqis we're not the enemy...
There were some at the CNP breakout who shared the spirit but questioned the wisdom of making the third-party threat. Recalled a participant who likened the splinter group to a kamikaze mission: "I was just sitting there thinking how every third-party effort has accomplished the exact opposite of what was intended. Perot helped give America the Clintons, and Nader delivered the White House to Bush." Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister often cited as the ideal bridge-building vice-presidential pick, was in no hurry to see his brethren break away. "The fact that...