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...sickness. Is he an agent of karma? A mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp of a master," according to film critic Chidananda Dasgupta.) The film is more beautifully shot than the rest of Adoor's oeuvre combined...
...change the world, Brilliant drifted into a surreal series of roles: physician to the Grateful Dead, co-star of a movie called Medicine Ball Caravan, seeker of enlightenment in India. The turning point came when, on his guru's advice, Brilliant joined the World Health Organization's effort to stamp out smallpox. "For a doctor, eradicating a disease is like climbing Mount Everest," he says. "It makes you want to find other mountains...
Worst of all, at no point does it seem as though the United States was sincerely considering any other options. They were hoping that “negotiating” meant everyone jumping on the bandwagon, and a rubber stamp from the U.N. In the end the Bush administration was determined, not convinced, that war would be the end to the Iraqi situation. When Bush went before the U.N. Security Council last September to reiterate the importance of the Security Council’s enforcement of its resolutions, his strong words came after Vicen President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary...
There would certainly be benefits to bringing more countries on board. Sealing a second resolution would allow the Administration to drape a multilateralist cloak over what many have charged is a U.S.-driven obsession with ousting Saddam. A U.N. stamp of approval would also make it easier for the U.S. to ask for the U.N.'s help in rebuilding Iraq after the war. And the various issues that will clamor for the world's attention after Iraq--from North Korea to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--could grow into far more dangerous crises if the U.S. and its allies...
...broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia in the final years of Milosevic's rule and the chaos and dread that many Serbs had hoped was behind them. Known for his wit, energy and commitment to pro-Western reforms, Djindjic was on a campaign to stamp out organized crime within the state security forces and society as a whole - and it may have cost him his life. According to one senior government official, he was set to sign the warrant for Lukovic's arrest on the day he was shot. The murder leaves Serbia's fractious...