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...LOVE BECOME A FUNERAL PYRE...
...What do you want for $9?" What you get in The Phantom Menace is a panoramic entertainment with several terrific set pieces of action, stalwart acting from the Brits (and some very raw work by the kids), a precise, luscious visual design, a multilevel climactic battle and a funeral pyre that echo Return of the Jedi, and a triumphal coda from the first Star Wars film (1977). All that, and a lot of talk...
...Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas, a man who was tied to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death because he was black. And now there is Billy Jack Gaither, a man from Sylacauga, Ala. who was clubbed to death with an ax handle and thrown onto a pyre of burning tires because...
...their animosity toward their victim's sexuality. Gaither's killers told police they plotted his killing after the mild-mannered textile worker made a sexual advance. After luring him to secluded boat ramp February 19, the killers bludgeoned him with an ax handle and then put him on a pyre of burning tires. In Wyoming, Shepard's attackers led him from a bar, tied him to a fence and brutally beat him. Days later he was dead...
...single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide whether those few square yards were a necessary, legitimate addition to Israel's housing stock or a flaming brand tossed on the pyre of Palestinian impatience and despair...