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...group known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution (named after an anti-British uprising led by Harith al-Dari's grandfather). Both al-Daris deny direct connection with the Brigades, but say Sunni insurgent groups are part of a legitimate, nationalist resistance to occupation. He has given religious sanction to some of the insurgency's more controversial tactics, such as kidnapping and killing foreigners, citing precedents from Islamic history...
Atget developed that understanding by prowling the streets in search of architectural details to photograph for his artist clients. His 1897 decision to document an endangered Paris coincided with the city's formation of a preservation commission to help rescue its disappearing landscape. Without official sanction Atget pitched in, setting off at dawn and working his way outward in concentric circles from the city center. He assembled his prints in albums, which he sold to local museums, galleries and the Bibliothèque Nationale. "Carrying his heavy and outmoded equipment on his back, casually and poorly dressed, he became himself...
...heads toward sainthood in the after-life - it's easy to forget that Pope John Paul II was widely and sometimes loudly criticized earlier in his pontificate. The jabs from inside and outside the Catholic Church often related to his steadfast opposition to abortion rights, refusal to sanction condom distribution in AIDS-plagued Africa and other stands linked to his traditionalist view of doctrine...
...leadership scholarship, which he is using to create a nonprofit to spread the word about parkour. As he quietly trains on campus, Cecka is preparing the paperwork for an urban-reclamation club to spruce up the school and build goodwill to one day get university officials to sanction parkour. "Hopefully, they'll listen to me then and won't immediately turn me down due to liability concerns," he says...
...Granted, the El-Masri case was a civil lawsuit, while the AIPAC case is a criminal prosecution. As Aziz Huq of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school says, "There's a difference between denying someone a remedy based on secrecy and subjecting someone to criminal sanction based on secret evidence." The latter is more serious. But the public's right to know what goes on in court is still the same. You would think that, at least for the sake of consistency, the Bush Administration would find a way for El-Masri's case to go forward...