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Some allegiances matter more than others, and Sweden proved the point. No one in that country, grieving over the senseless murder of the pro-euro Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh (see box), considered it a blot on her memory that 56% of those voting wanted to keep the krona. Indeed, it was largely in her honor that 82.6% of the electorate turned out to vote - they paid their respects by participating, not by agreeing with her. Their anti-euro sentiment is shared by many in the U.K. Two key factors drive that opposition, and prevent Tony Blair from calling a referendum...
...hear the mantra of violence in the press recited: antiwar activist Michael Moore, whose ilk dwells on this kind of negative outlook, retells it in Bowling for Columbine; Nancy Reagan and Lynne Cheney lament it in Congressional hearings; thousands of Americans daily note in passing one or another murder featured as the top story in the local newspaper. The more grandiose arena of Iraq merely offers a larger stage for the violence that captivates Americans, as well as the syndicates who report their news...
...said, "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001... The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror... We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th - the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they...
...star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, before starring as a vigilante who avenges the murder of his wife and rape of his daughter in the 1974 blockbuster Death Wish. He later won over underwhelmed U.S. critics with gritty turns as a prizefighter in Hard Times and an outlaw in the satirical western From Noon Till Three...
...ordered it, he would have been dead already in the first attempt." RODRIGO DUTERTE, mayor of Davao City, Philippines, denying involvement in the murder of journalist Juan Pala who had survived three previous attempts on his life...