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...amid ongoing violence, including four car bombs last week that killed at least 28 Iraqis. The instability that has plagued Iraq since the war's end 15 months ago has curtailed the spread of liberties that U.S. officials once promised would have taken root by now. Violent crime remains rampant. And while interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi last week vowed to "annihilate" the armed insurgents, few Iraqis expect relief from the dangers that have become part of daily life...
Beyond its surface flaws, does Outfoxed harbor an important message? Yes. Fox’s news coverage is rife with fearmongering, mistruths and rampant partisanship. The most powerful sequence of the film is Bill O’Reilly’s on-air interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a Sept. 11 victim. Glick attempted to explain his opposition to Bush’s post-attack foreign policy; an enraged O’Reilly interrupted and browbeat his guest, even asserting that his father “would not approve of this.” Later...
...anti-Semitism - an idea Leblanc's fictive assault was built upon - is itself a sign of racism. "Anti-Semitism is extremely serious, but when it's discussed today, it's Muslims who fall under suspicion," protests Kamel Kabtane, president of the Rhône-Alps Regional Muslim Council. "Rampant Islamophobia now in France leads everyone to blame the Muslim community." Michel Wieviorka, director of the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, a research lab in Paris, agrees that non-Jews suffer less dramatic but more common discrimination, encountering "overt racism as well as daily prejudice. Acts of discrimination - from being...
...five walkie-talkies and none have bulletproof body armor. The American MPs posted as advisers to the station, he says, "laughed at us. They said the guns would be stolen by gangs and used against Americans." Yet he and his men are expected both to crack down on the rampant crime that is terrorizing the city and to face off against insurgents...
...years ago. Certainly, there is more diversity than ever before, but the College remains the home of countless black tie balls, lavish dinners and drunken garden parties. As a result many observers seem to think that spoiled students can idle away their time here, thanks in large part to rampant grade inflation, before slipping effortlessly into the upper echelons of American society...