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Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who expressed his own concerns about The Passion, says the center has received a flood of angry calls and rancorous e-mail. "Not all of them are hateful," he says. "Some of them invite us to become Christians." Hier won't demonize Gibson. "I don't believe he is an anti-Semite. But I do think he has a responsibility here. Wonders can be done to a film in the editing room. Corrections can be made. That is, if he's interested in healing this issue...
...might have seemed that Arnold Schwarzenegger got an enormous boost over the weekend when one of his best-known Republican rivals dropped out of California's wild gubernatorial race. But by the time Bill Simon exited, his poll numbers registered as little more than an asterisk in the crowded field. "Everybody had been surprised by [his poor showing], including him," says a G.O.P. strategist. Democrats, meanwhile, appeared to be gaining as they coalesced around what is known as the "no-yes" approach: asking voters to cast a ballot against recalling Governor Gray Davis but in favor of Lieutenant Governor Cruz...
Team Schwarzenegger is hoping that other Republicans in the race--particularly State Senator Tom McClintock, around whom the most ardent conservatives have rallied--will follow Simon to the sidelines. But the actor's strategists know he must do more than winnow the field to draw voters. Men 35 and younger are known to turn out in force when it comes to films about gun-toting, back-from-the-future robots, but history shows that on Election Day they are more inclined to sit home with a video. Getting them off the couch to vote on Oct. 7 could...
...change, says the mayor, is backed by many of Pretoria's black residents, who resent living in a city named for Andries Pretorius, a leader of the Afrikaners' march of settlement. Here's a look at other South African places where new names have been adopted or proposed. - By Simon Robinson...