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...Howe Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Why is no one discussing the possibility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with friendly or at least neutral forces from Arab countries? Egypt and Jordan should assist in the peacekeeping. Muslim countries should help Iraqi Muslims until an Iraqi army is in place. Peter B. Saadeh New York City I saw the pictures of the Iraqi people walking to the polls to exercise their right to vote in the face of death threats, bombs and with entire families in jeopardy. To vote in spite of all that takes courage above and beyond what most...
...that a mentally ill Australian woman, Cornelia Rau, had been held for four months at South Australia's remote Baxter detention center after claiming to be an illegal immigrant from Germany. Among Australia's long-term detainees are those who have been denied refugee status; some, like Kashmiri Peter Qasim, who has been held for nearly seven years because India will not accept him without any identification papers, could spend the rest of their lives in detention...
...freshman has plans to compete on the U.S. Junior team this year, and, according to head coach Peter Brand, has a good chance to even make the Senior team. Brand suggests that an Olympic appearance is on the horizon...
Surrounded by real actors (Tilda Swinton at her most immaculately decadent as the angel Gabriel, pinwheeling Peter Stormare as Satan, Rachel Weisz as The Girl), Reeves holds his own, creating a force field around his watchful entropy. In his early years, he may have been only a nerd's idea of a hip guy. Now, at 40, he has achieved a freon-cool satori, which makes him the perfect, still center of a visually agitated, intellectually restless movie. --By Richard Corliss
Harvard coach Peter Brand, who met a flurry of confetti after the day’s bouts, extolled his team’s resolve...