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...There are other hints of unpleasantness: In the center of town, we pass a poster of a huge fist smashing down on a startled soldier. An American? I ask. ?You can think like that,? replies our guide. Later, chief minder Choe Jong Hun lectures us on Washington's treacherous attempts to get North Korea to disarm unilaterally through the six-party nuclear talks (the latest round last week produced no results). ?After that the U.S. is going to invade our country,? says Choe. ?Such talks are not necessary...
...Michigan in 2002, is also a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School. Many consider the Canadian-born governor, who delivered a prime-time speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, to be her party’s answer to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Michigan is the poster child for the deindustrialization of America,” Granholm said of her state, whose once-strong auto industry has suffered from jobs moving overseas. To deal with the effects of global competition, Granholm said, she has aimed to diversify the Michigan economy and to place a greater focus...
Sajida Rishawi was meant to become a poster girl for suicide terror. But she is inspiring revulsion, not veneration, in Jordan and beyond. The 35-year-old Iraqi woman from the restive Sunni city of Ramadi had traveled to Jordan intending to be the fourth bomber in last week's suicide attacks on hotels in Amman. Instead, Jordanian sources tell TIME, she was arrested Sunday morning in the historic city of Salt, after fleeing the Radisson SAS hotel and making her escape by taxi. The sources say that she headed for the western Jordanian city, known for its radical Islamists...
Ever since his coruscating book Mad in America was published in 2002, American Robert Whitaker has been a poster boy for the anti-psychiatry movement. In Mad in America (Perseus Books), he argued that the assumption of a physical cause for schizophrenia had given rise to many wrongheaded treatments, from ice-water immersion to today's antipsychotic drugs. These days, the Pulitzer Prize finalist makes a similar case against psychiatry over its approach to the treatment of depression...
...forcing Muslims to confront the threat he poses to their societies. In the days after the bombings, thousands took to the streets to vent their anger--a relatively rare spectacle in the Islamic world since Sept. 11, 2001. BURN IN HELL ABU MOUSAB AL-ZARQAWI read a typical poster. On Thursday even al-Zarqawi's sister-in-law was distressed by the attacks. "What I saw on TV yesterday did not please me," she said. By Saturday, Jordanian authorities had arrested at least 14 people suspected of aiding the three bombers in the attacks. At the Days Inn, another couple...