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Enveloped in Smoke and Fear BASRA TERRY MCCARTHY...
...fear that hangs over Basra is as thick and evil-smelling as the canopy of black smoke reaching across the sky from the burning oil trenches around the city. "In Basra everything is horrible for us," says Osamah Ijam, 23, a medical student who left town on Friday morning. "We see our future burning...
...recent chaos is eroding the interethnic goodwill engendered by decades of sharing hardships under Saddam Hussein. Amid the scent of blooming lilacs and the smoke from burning oil, a united group of Arabs, Turks and Kurds pulled down the central statue of Hussein on Thursday. "We can coexist, we all had the same dream: to destroy the Saddam Hussein regime and get democracy. We don't want civil war," said one shopowner, Zuhair Muhammed. But just a few hours later, the streets were controlled by Kurds. Crowds of teenage boys rode in the back of pickups shooting their Kalashnikovs...
...haven’t always been the most constant painting student. But I was in the studio once painting this image of smoke from oil fires burning in Baghdad. And so, [Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Sue] Williams, my painting professor, who also happens to be really famous, asked, ‘Who painted this?,’ and I said that I had. And she said, ‘Oh!’ and the surprise in her voice was just so beautiful and funny...
...described one student in particular: “He is dealing with ruins, which until recently had a kind of romantic quality to them. And they have shifted toward something which is in a sense a lot more sinister: the presence of clouds caused by fire or smoke or explosions...