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...slightly, rubbing out old images and drawing in new ones, again photographing the result. Movement is produced by stringing together a line of these pictures. The result is animation in which the old images are never fully erased; a piece of paper flying across the sky retains a faint shadow of itself dangling in its wake...
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...accumulation of disorder in Pakistan is such that it could well be the next Yugoslavia," Weaver warns in Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 284 pages). Worse, actually--it's Yugoslavia with an atomic arsenal that could fall into the hands of terrorists should the country disintegrate. It also has a dozen or so private Islamic militias, all eager to install a religious regime, and a powerful intelligence service--"a kingdom within the state," she calls it--shot through with bin Laden sympathizers...
...missed Italian cultural gem. Clinton - then the First Lady, now a Senator from New York - was most interested in ingratiating herself with Sicilian-American voters back home. But she was telling the truth when she praised Palermo's efforts to get out from under the Mafia's shadow, which have led to a drop in the murder rate from more than 200 to less than 15 a year. The next day, Chelsea Clinton left her mom behind to explore the city - a small moment, perhaps, but one that marked Palermo's return from its dark days of gangland...
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