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...Last Wednesday night, gunmen pushed their way into the train station and started firing “indiscriminately,” as the newspapers wrote. Envisioning it, I remind myself that the shooting started after 9:20 at night. The crowd would have thinned by then, I tell myself. The crush in the moments after the firing would have been less terrifying than at six or five...
...Whenever terrorist attacks such as these are carried out (such generalizations can be made because they occur so frequently), pundits predictably exclaim that we must not allow hatred for Islam to fester, but rather, we must remind ourselves that terrorists represent a fringe movement and that tolerance should be extended to the rest of the Muslim world. A witch-hunt may not be in order, but there is no question that the attacks in Mumbai were fueled by the Muslim fanaticism that has grown so prevalent. The Wall Street Journal reported that as two gunmen poised to fire...
...Georgia, it's almost as if the election hasn't ended. National political heavyweights like Bill Clinton, John McCain, Sarah Palin and Al Gore have stormed through the state to remind its citizens that history is still at stake. On Tuesday, Georgia goes to the polls to decide a seat that could inch Democrats closer to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The prospect of such a legislative advantage has the Republican incumbent in this red-leaning state billing himself as as the final "firewall" against the agenda of Barack Obama...
...night. "They should have pulled the alarm," he says. Instead, hotel staff advised people already inside to stay where they were. People in their rooms were told to stay put even after the firing between the police and the suspects began. Hotel operators would call them periodically to remind them to keep the lights off and the volume on the TV down...
...Waltz steps out of animation, using TV news footage to show the carnage of Sabra and Shatila. "I didn't want people to walk out thinking this was just another cool anti-war movie," says Folman. "I wanted to remind them that this horrible event really happened, and we Israelis were a part of it." After seeing his film, nobody is going to forget...