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...have died in Afghanistan since September. A total of 37 were killed last year, 24 the year before. Journalists are sometimes naive about their own safety, prone to an illusion that they are either bulletproof or invisible. In the mid-'60s, I walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters...
...rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing in biometric face identification has been hired to scan the irises of some pilgrims; a French company has the contract to digitally record their fingerprints. Intelligence operatives mingle with the crowds and thousands of soldiers and police are stationed...
...have died in Afghanistan since September. A total of 37 were killed last year, 24 the year before. Journalists are sometimes naive about their own safety, prone to an illusion that they are either bulletproof or invisible. In the mid-'60s, I walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters...
...says co-curator Anne Dumas. "We felt that French art toward the end of the 20th century was not so interesting and innovative, [while] the first half of the century was extremely rich." The team decided to concentrate on Paris and end their overview in 1968, a year of riot and political upheaval in France. The early rooms fizz with life. Before World War I, artists were experimenting like children with a chemistry set. Here are pieces from the studios of the great and the less-great who splashed the lurid colors of the Fauve (Wild Beast) school onto...
Last year the Oklahoma legislature passed a bill affirming that whites were responsible for the riot. But it did not provide reparations to a group of elderly black survivors, a redress that had set off years of controversy. (Each of them received instead a gold-plated medal with the state seal.) The archives of the Tulsa Tribune are still incomplete. But thanks to the commission--and Hirsch's book--the crimes that were covered up are now back in the collective memory...