Word: soldierism
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...Furious settlers later released a statement condemning the Israeli security forces. "We hope they will be defeated by their enemies, that they will all be [kidnapped IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit, that they will all be killed and all slaughtered because this is what they deserve," it read. Settler wrath was also aimed at Washington. Commenting on the arrival of the U.S.-sponsored Palestinian security forces in Hebron, settler leader Baruch Marzel told TIME: "It's like asking Bin Laden's men to come protect Manhattan." He added: "They're terrorists. We'll shoot them if they come near our houses...
There may be someone on earth - a cloistered abbess, perhaps, or a Taliban soldier in a particularly remote post - who has yet to learn that High School Musical 3 opened last Friday. (It promptly leaped to the top of the U.S. box office, to the tune of a $42 million weekend take, and was No. 1 in each of the 19 international markets in which it opened.) But it's a rare human who hasn't at least heard of the Disney tween hit, given the passion of its fans and the zeal of Disney's promotion. What began...
...fact, the current round of attention could work in the far right's favor, says Hofer. Haider was a divisive figure who once referred to the members of Nazi Germany's Waffen SS as deserving of as much honor as any German soldier, and who praised Hitler's employment policies. But the emotion and media frenzy around his death, which Hofer compares to England's trauma over the passing of Princess Diana, has distracted people from Haider's far-right legacy. Haider's party will contest elections in the province of Carinthia next spring. Few observers doubt that the party...
...Wager from interviews conducted by Yvonne Latty (first produced at Philadelphia's Temple University and now playing off-Broadway). Though the play is worthy and often affecting, the selection of vets seems as calculated as that of a Hollywood WW II platoon (disillusioned amputee, gung-ho nurse, gay soldier burdened by "Don't ask, don't tell") and the message (soldiers good, war bad) a little...
...back to the early 1700s. But what could have been dry and didactic is transformed by a host of inventive, kinetic environmental-theater devices: strobe-and-sound effects to simulate the shock of battle, video screens, interludes of traditional Scottish military songs, evocatively choreographed group movement. In one sequence, soldiers silently pass letters from home to one another, reading and weaving about the stage in a ballet of camaraderie and longing. In another, a soldier recites the history of the regiment while being manhandled by his comrades like a toy soldier--upended, passed around, dressed and undressed in the assorted...