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Tucked deep in a tangled warren of dusty alleyways, the golden dome of the Imam Ali shrine gleams in the afternoon sun. Its shining twin minarets reflect light on the ornately painted tiles that cover every surface not faced with gold. But the Old City ringing the glorious shrine, where millions of Shi'ite faithful come on pilgrimage, has been battered by three weeks of savage battle into a blasted warscape of empty, broken buildings. With the dramatic intervention last week of the Shi'ites' most revered leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, 74, the domed shrine was saved...
...earliest cartoon troublemakers, now appear as the twin towers personified. In another strip Spiegelman depicts himself as Jiggs, the Bringing Up Father prole turned jumpy hubby who now watches too much CNN. The artist mimics the old works expertly, along with a wide variety of other artistic styles that reflect the author's fractured state of mind. In less expert hands the clashing visuals may well have collapsed into unreadable chaos. Here they knit into an edgy cohesion...
...world prevents any substantive dialogue about why people resort to terrorism. No matter the extent to which we may agree that terrorism is wrong, it is simply insufficient to argue that terrorists become terrorists because they are evil. You may believe that—and your policies certainly reflect that belief—but in terms of making the world a safer place, that belief leads only toward the escalation of violence...
People are really hating right now," Jim Lehrer, public television's lion of civility, said a few weeks ago. "Our e-mails and our phone calls reflect not a lot of open minds out there." Well, it certainly seems so--and especially last week, as the friends and fanatics of John Kerry and George W. Bush mobilized themselves for the general election. A flying squad of Vietnam veterans--not directly related to the Bush campaign--launched a slime attack on John Kerry's war record. A flying squad of pop musicians--not directly related to the Kerry campaign--announced that...
...made a U-turn, for a second the car was facing sideways. Without road markings and the tarmac to reflect their beams, my headlights faded into the vast expanse of emptiness. For a moment, I saw nothing. No trees, no bushes and not one familiar contour of a sheep or cow behind the fences of a paddock. The illuminated dials in the dashboard seemed all there was in the world and the hum of the engine its only heartbeat...