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...modesty belies a confident charm: Pasternack is a pale and lanky guy and exudes the kind of disaffected cool that tags him as a hipster. In conversation, however, he is warm and friendly, if a bit distracted. His eyes, like his words, tend to wander with restless attention...
...York Times’ John Burns visited Iraq before the war and concluded of Saddam’s state: “The terror is self-compounding, with the state’s power reinforced by stories that relatives of the victims pale to tell—of fingernail-extracting, eye-gouging, genital-shocking and bucket-drowning. Secret police rape prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre...
Whatever the failures of America’s Iraqi occupation—and from Abu Ghraib to distorted intelligence, there have been more than a few—liberals have got to recognize what the voters already see: that those mistakes are a shade of pale next to the atrocities that preceded them...
...therefore needs to be handled delicately. The Tories have not been very delicate. Their remarkable campaign slogan, "Are you thinking what we're thinking?," is meant to be provocative, a sly reference to fears of a flood tide of mask-wearing extremists and veiled women invading England's pale land. If the polls can be believed, fear mongering hasn't helped the Tory effort. The third-place Liberal Democrats are led by Charles Kennedy, who has moved the party from bland moderation to more promising territory on the antiwar left. Kennedy is seen as a charming but puerile fellow...
...voting fraud, Doe imperiously declared himself the winner. At week's end the President announced that Quiwonkpa had been spotted near the radio station and shot dead. Quiwonkpa's bullet-riddled body was displayed at the army barracks where he once had an office. NICARAGUA Beyond the Diplomatic Pale...