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Robert Pape, author of a book about suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, says the tactic has historically been used when two conditions are met: first, insurgents feel they are fighting foreign troops in places they regard as their homeland (Osama bin Laden, for example, has railed against U.S. bases in the Arabian Peninsula); and second, when the occupiers come from a different religious background, insurgents are able to paint them as subjugators of their faith and its followers. Those conditions, it turns out, co-exist prominently in the Muslim world today, particularly in the Middle East. --With reporting by Aparisim...
Marwan says would-be "martyrs" may use their waiting time to take care of business--paying off debts, resolving family matters, saying farewells. Some destroy any photographs of themselves; extremist Islamists regard pictures as a sign of vanity and therefore taboo. Others compile lists of the 70 people Islamic tradition says a "martyr" can guarantee a place in paradise. "I haven't got my 70 names yet--I don't think I know that many people," Marwan says, allowing himself a rare smile. Some dig graves for themselves and leave instructions on the way they should be buried--generally with...
...expected to win approval in the Senate, where its sponsors are two other experienced Irish pols, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Administration is finding the road much bumpier for the rest of its $16.2 billion foreign aid package for fiscal year 1987, which many lawmakers regard as an exorbitant expenditure in the era of Gramm-Rudman. FEMINISM Back to The Streets...
...bringing bemused skepticism to Dylan's own tales of his arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick us up and we would do anything you wanted, as long as it paid"). Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan was a mythomaniac with a backhand regard for truth. Accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in 1963, he got fired up and tanked up and informed the assembled dignitaries, "Lee Oswald, I don't know exactly where--what he thought he was doing, but I got to admit honestly that...
...easy to shrug off. For in writing the play on which the film is based, Mark Medoff shrewdly, perhaps courageously, added an unexpected element to the mix. He permitted love--the real, sexual thing--to develop between that too-good teacher (played with a bit too much self-regard by William Hurt) and one of the school's charges...