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...many of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder: restlessness, heavy drinking, irritability, depression, survivor's guilt, lack of direction and barely concealed nihilism." He fulfilled a dream in 1947, though, by setting up the Magnum photo cooperative, named after the large champagne bottle. Capa next traveled to the Soviet Union, but the cold war did not suit his talents. Grazed - and badly shaken - by a bullet in Tel Aviv in 1948, he sat out the Korean War. But the gambler in him was lured back into the fray in 1954, to work again for Life magazine. "This is going...
...Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years before becoming a lawmaker in 1990. DIED. J. CARTER BROWN, 67, former director of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, who oversaw the construction of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure as director...
...Laden have been linked for years. In a 1998 interview with ABC News, bin Laden spoke warmly of both Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah, another convicted member of the Bojinka plot. Yousef and bin Laden moved in the same circles during the fight in Afghanistan against Soviet forces, where Yousef first met Abdurajak Janjalani, the leader of the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Janjalani, who was killed in 1998, was close to bin Laden, and in the early 1990s Yousef worked with him in the Philippines. Janjalani's operations are believed by Philippine authorities to have been bankrolled...
...seem to accept, that we are all human, and that the laity's real experience dealing with bad marriages, homosexual orientation or contraception is often as morally valid as the arid proscriptions issued from on high. But they cannot say so publicly. This dissonance is a little like the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The hierarchy pretends to preach these doctrines and the laity pretends to believe them...
...even if Al Qaeda is in possession of nuclear material, it need not necessarily have come from Pakistan. Unsubstantiated rumors have abounded for much of the past decade about the possibility of small nuclear bombs being lost by Moscow during the breakup of the Soviet Union, and possibly being sold by criminals to terrorists. In the past eight years, 175 cases have been recorded worldwide of nuclear materials (not bombs) being smuggled out of former Soviet territories and other countries. Such material could have reached bin Laden through criminals - intelligence officials reportedly believe Al Qaeda operatives have been stung more...