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...Axis of Evil gets most of its mileage out of sending up the paranoid American stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims. Ahmed Ahmed, who is an Egyptian-American, likes to complain about how hard it is to pass through airport security because a well-known terrorist shares the same name. If dubious airline officials ask him to prove he's a comedian by telling a joke, Ahmed responds: "Um, I just graduated from flight school?" When that joke bombs (sorry!), he consoles himself with the thought of how frustrated the other Ahmed must get when people mistake him for a comedian...
...Duch, a former mathematics teacher before joining the Khmer Rouge, oversaw S-21 prison with fastidious attention to detail. The prison's harrowing records survive: Mug shots of thousands of inmates, records of forced confessions elicited under torture, and post-execution photographs, which the ever-paranoid regime sometimes required as proof that its enemies, real and imagined, had been dispatched...
...Summoning Spirits? I was disappointed to see Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cast alongside Hugo Chávez - a clearly paranoid and delusional man - as simply another "leftist anti-Yanqui" South American leader [Oct. 8]. It seems that Tim Padgett is more interested in stirring the old ghosts of anti-commie sentiment, which in South America led to the disastrous and brutal rule of the U.S.-backed military juntas (from which many countries are still reeling), than in presenting us with an accurate account of current politics. Pedro Morais, Lisbon...
...performed by Karen Krolak to a poem that she also wrote and recorded. Krolak, wearing only a bed sheet which she held up with one arm, performed sinuous and sensual movements offset by the wild expression of her face. The dance successfully reflected the poem, which explored the paranoid and self-destructive feelings of the speaker, but was unimpressive in terms of actual choreography. More of a dramatic statement than an enjoyable work of art, the piece was dominated more by Krolak’s crazed facial expressions than her dancing...
...post-exercise analysis that takes place over a two-year period). The most important thing you can do before a disaster is establish relationships among the people who will matter most. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, the only thing more destructive than storm surges are distrustful, territorial and paranoid bureaucrats. "The last thing you want to see at the scene of a disaster are people exchanging business cards," one emergency preparedness expert once told me. And this particular simulation is unique in that, unlike the hundreds of drills that happen all year round, it involves senior officials (hence...