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...also extremist Islamic clerics and other radicals base their hatred of America on U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, the complaint is about America's lack of understanding of the Palestinian problem. To believe that the next phase of terror will occur as far afield as the Philippines is ludicrous. The powder keg is not there but in the Middle East. And the fuse on that powder keg is already alight. The terrorists who stand in the way of achieving a peaceful settlement to the issue of a Palestinian homeland must be brought to heel. CHARLES H. EYPPER Berlin...
...Charlie White’s photograph “Friday Night,” a tanned, blond housewife in a dowdy, powder blue night gown, aggressively kneads a raw shank of meat into the pristinely white carpet of her suburban home. Her furrowed brow, clenched teeth, and planted thighs represent a hostile determination. In an opening night lecture, Charlie White suggested that this woman is pounding a part of herself into the floor...
...disintegrating situation. Mazar's warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum is engaging in a wave of ethnic cleansing against the area's Pashtun minority. There are continuing stories of rape, looting and pillage against them. On the surface, Mazar appears to have moved beyond the war, but it is a powder keg. Kabul, on the other hand, is clearly a war zone. Reaching the city after a trip over the mountains, we went through numerous strict security checks; 50 miles from the city, I saw warplanes and Apache attack helicopters in the air. There is a curfew in town, and tales...
...along a private path forged through her own trials. At the same time, Mukherjee follows a new path as well. Her novel, while dealing with Indian immigrants, is not restricted by that category. She has created a truly original work of literature that is much spicier than any predigested powder could...
Berezovsky's accusations centered on an incident that took place soon after the worst bombings. Local residents in the city of Ryazan, south of Moscow, reported suspicious behavior to the police, who discovered a large quantity of an unknown powder. The FSB later claimed that they had been conducting an exercise, and that the powder was sugar, yet an explosives specialist from the city was quoted as saying that it was in fact hexogen, the substance that had wrought such horrible damage in Moscow and Volgodonsk. If the bombing was done by the FSB, Berezovsky said, Putin must have known...