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...Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., with $5,560 of swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...
There are far more hospitable places than the Red Cross refugee center in Sangatte, in northern France, a stinking hangar crammed with over 1,600 asylum seekers and surrounded by police and a high wire fence. But that's exactly where 99 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants badly wanted to be last week. we want to go to Sangatte or to die, read one handmade banner held aloft by a group of young men who occupied the Calais Church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, about 8 km from Sangatte. Most had paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers...
...Paulin, a Northern Irish poet and lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tomorrow evening...
...that one of the few democracies in the Middle East would use a war on Iraq to suppress the democratic hopes and aspirations of other people. The United States, in the interests of promoting democracy in a region starved of it, should help the Kurds secure a state in northern Iraq. The Kurds have already provided the infrastructure and the resolve; all that is needed now is strong American initiative...
...actually more likely that the creation of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq would instead mitigate desires for secession elsewhere. Given the long history of the Kurds’ inability to secure their own country, they would be willing to take whatever they could get. It is possible that Kurds from neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria would flood into the newly created Kurdish state, rather than remain behind and demand for even more territorial secession...