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...upcoming horror flick. Three Arab men appear in separate shots: one has wide eyes and a gesticulating left hand; another appears to read from a text, never looking up at the camera; the third buries his head between his knees, then cozies up to a Kalashnikov and smiles. The silent footage, released by the Justice Department last Thursday, was spliced together from five tapes recovered by allied forces in the rubble of the home of Mohammed Atef, al-Qaeda's operations mastermind who was killed by a U.S. air strike in November. They were no ordinary home movies. The five...
...heartened by Michael Elliott's article "After the Guns Are Silent" [GLOBAL AGENDA, Dec. 31-Jan. 7]. Elliott went beyond the short-term victories of the military machine and addressed the core, enduring problem of poverty. The hopelessness and feelings of injustice that accompany poverty have clearly been factors in the breeding of terrorist activities around the world. President Bush would be wise to heed Elliott's advice and lead the world in a campaign to eradicate poverty. As the saying goes, "If you want peace, work for justice." MAE TINKLENBERG Palo Alto, Calif...
...cultured. But the pearl necklaces were about the only noncultured things in Koch's painted world (as, come to think of it, they were in the world of one of his chief idols, Vermeer). His pictures celebrate refinement--of material, of craftsmanship, of manners and, so far as a silent art can do so, of social speech...
That is why we cannot be silent when we see sexual crimes being committed. We all have to have the courage to get involved and tell someone if he’s out of line, had too much to drink, abusing his girlfriend or simply that his demeaning jokes about women are not funny...
...Washington, D.C., was arrested as a spy and detained for nearly six months before China convicted and expelled her. The scholar, whose son and husband are American citizens, was one of several academics with U.S. ties arrested this year. But she is vowing to defy Chinese threats to keep silent and has spoken openly about her experience. The bespectacled sociologist's controversial specialty? Gender studies...