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...enthusiastic imams back home. Once across the border, they head to mosques to link up with local resistance cells. U.S. officials believe that most of them then carry out missions under the orders of Saddam loyalists. "They use the fundamentalists as cannon fodder," especially for lethal attacks on soft targets involving car bombs, say the officials. "Suicide bombers are generally not Iraqis or former regime types...
...Koons have been a major inspiration for him, and so has the later work of Francis Picabia--those painstaking oils from the 1940s that Picabia copied from naughty photographs. But in the mid-'90s Currin began to introduce old master borrowings into his work, at first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come from all over--Botticelli, Mantegna, Courbet--but a favorite is the nudes of Lucas Cranach, the Northern Renaissance painter whose...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft--so often at odds with civil libertarians--going soft? It might seem that way to those watching recent actions in the war on terrorism. Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held without charges for two years, last week was finally allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time. Australian David Hicks became the first of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gain access to lawyers, one military and one from Australia. Meanwhile, the chief author of Ashcroft's controversial Patriot Act, Viet Dinh, a former Justice official...
...just love our rims,” Delaney-Smith said. “They’re soft. We love them...
...don’t remember a start like this, as tough a non-conference start, and not being home,” Delaney-Smith said. “We just love our rims. They’re soft. We love them...