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After Hamas bombers claimed 25 victims in Israel last week, the isolation of Yassin made a good show of a crackdown, but little more. The infirm cleric in his white robes, confined to a wheelchair since a teenage sports accident paralyzed his limbs, speaks in a soprano pitch so soft a listener can barely hear him. But for years his fiery exhortations preaching eternal warfare until Israel is driven into the sea made him the dominant figure in an organization that turned his words into action. Now he is largely a figurehead. He presides over Hamas' sprawling social services...
...during NATO's 1999 air war over Kosovo were largely ineffective. In Desert Storm, psyops soldiers held focus groups among Iraqi POWs to determine what messages resonated. Afghanistan is still too unsettled for the 4th Group to survey prisoners or civilians on whether they've been swayed by the pitch. "I think we're making a difference," says Treadwell. The proof will be the war's end - and in an enduring peace...
...rest of the cast, however, is not quite up to the level of the principals and the accompaniment. Too frequently, the supporting cast struggles with pitch and fails to harmonize. During the reprises of the main theme, the audience winds up forgetting about the lyrics, just hoping that the actors will hit the right note (and praying that they will drop out when they don?...
...Bush's unpolished rhetoric and simple delivery, once parodied, have the right pitch for the crisis - at least in the U.S. The President has been able to rally the country from both the rostrum and the rubble pile. Mention this evolution to the Bush team and you'll get howls. He was always thus, they complain: Bush has not suddenly grown talents from scratch; he has merely shifted his focus. When concentrating on specific tasks with identifiable goals, he has always performed well...
...bastard child, The Godfather trilogy’s cultural import cannot be overstated. With Nino Rota’s haunting score, Coppola’s deft storytelling, Gordon Willis’ exquisite cinematography and any number of superlative cast performances, the first two films are as close to pitch-perfect filmmaking as any ensemble has ever attempted. However, woe betide the one who actually decides to play the DVD to Part III. If you do, the universe will collapse into a pinpoint of matter so dense that from it no light will escape. The third installment of the Corleone crime...