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...final days of a bomber's life. "Once a volunteer is placed in my care," he says, "I am responsible for everything in his life until the time comes for him to end it." Al-Tamimi is often the last person bombers talk to before their deadly mission. He is so proficient at facilitating suicide bombings that he says his own brother and sister have asked to be considered for "martyrdom operations." He gave them some basic training but advised them to find other, less drastic ways of serving the insurgency. "A suicide bombing should be the last resort...
...well-known author Orhan Pahmuk for "publicly denigrating" the nation. As you noted, this prosecution could count against Turkey's bid to enter the European Union. Advocating for Turkish E.U. membership in order to encourage a kind of moderate and democratic Islam can be a noble mission. Nevertheless, the E.U. should not ignore popular opinion. What if millions of European citizens simply do not want Turkey - a militaristic, deeply nationalistic, Asiatic (geographically as well as culturally) country that has a history of disrespect for ethnic, religious and other minorities - to become a powerful decision maker in the E.U.? Before going...
...Angeles, and the artist who calls himself Branded is getting ready for a "mission." If he were another kind of artist, he would call it a gallery opening, but today his gallery consists of a few alleys off La Brea Avenue and some threadbare bits of downtown. Once there, he will look for exhibition sites, meaning temporary construction walls, shuttered buildings and utility boxes. One thing to know about street art is that it generally plants its flag in Nowheresville...
...Harvard Square.” “Never give up,” said fellow zebraphile Burden H. Walker ’06. “Never give up.” Although it seems safe to say that the horse-seeking hooligans will not succeed at their mission, the campaign cannot attribute its failure to lack of enthusiasm. Supporters messaged almost every House e-mail list and a handful posted photos of zebras on their facebook.com profiles. Throughout the past week, Banerji has updated the Team Zebra blog regularly, garnering around 1,500 hits to the site...
However, while haphazardly flipping through a copy of Rolling Stone a few weeks ago, a voice spoke to me. As two bright lights shone in my face, a higher power gave me my mission in strange tongues, which sounds, to an untrained ear, like the squealing wheels and crash...