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...unpredictable as it feels. Terrorists follow patterns. And while we can't read the minds of zealots, we can get a good idea of what kind of damage they could do in any given location. We can estimate the cost of an attack on a port in Los Angeles vs. an attack on a port in Prince William Sound. We can calculate where a nuclear blast of a given force would kill 500,000 people as opposed to 50,000. These are the logical estimates that insurers and investment banks are seeking as they try to quantify the risk they...
...Biennial of Australian Art - at the Art Gallery of South Australia through May 30 - and death is everywhere. For visitors who can prise themselves away from Mike Parr, filmed sewing his face together in a kind of grimacing death mask, there's Adam Geczy's video elegy for the Port Arthur massacre, and TV footage of the Moscow theater siege glimpsed through the living-room curtains of Linda Wallace's installation Entanglements, 2004. Then there's the wicked whack of Destiny Deacon's bloodied boomerang in her enlarged Polaroid, My Boomerang Did Come Back, 2003. So do the images...
...Iraq. But, like Philippe himself, Haiti can be a p.r. nuisance for any U.S. Administration that intervenesa terminally failed state that often inflicts collateral damage on America's image as an exporter of democratic institutions. As more than 2,000 U.S., French and other international peacekeeping troops began policing Port-au-Prince's streets last week, it was hard to forget that Haiti's newest crisis resulted in part from the U.S.'s meager effort when it last intervened there. That was in 1994, when 20,000 U.S. troops restored Aristide to power after his first presidency had been aborted...
...initial goal of U.S. forces in Haiti was to protect "key facilities" like the airport. But as the pro-Aristide mobs, known as chimeres, tried to take back parts of Port-au-Prince last week, vengefully looting and shooting up neighborhoods, the U.S. and France responded by launching street patrols. Unlike troops in many other peacekeeping efforts who pledge to use deadly force only in self-defense, soldiers in Haiti will be armed "with the rules that allow them to do their job," said General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--meaning they can intervene to stop...
...irony did not escape Luis Moreno. In the blackness before dawn on Feb. 29, the U.S. official waited with Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport for the Haitian President's getaway plane. Moreno recalled that he had escorted Aristide on his triumphant, U.S.-backed return to Haiti 10 years earlier. When Moreno expressed regret at the turn of events, he says, the soon-to-be exiled leader replied, "Sometimes life is like that...