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...figure are inescapable. At traffic circles, you see little stone Saddams and big cast-metal Saddams, right arm raised to embrace his people. In front of a ministry, a brand-new bronze Saddam stands 20 ft. tall in the prow of a boat: the idea is that Saddam will steer his people to the shining shore on the other side of sanctions. On a wall, a white-suited Saddam is painted holding flowers; on another, a uniformed Saddam is staring through binoculars at a battlefield; on a third, he wears a business suit and smiles. He always smiles...
...While wayward monks have shaken the faith of many, Sanitsuda draws consolation from several encouraging trends. Modern, socially engaged monks, such as noted author and Sangha member Phra Paisan Visalo, serve as role models for some, working with civic groups to try and steer Thailand's often greed-driven development onto a more just, equitable and environmentally friendly path. Among the middle class, there has been a remarkable rise in the popularity of meditation retreats. And Professor Sunthorn Narangsri of Chulalongkorn University's Buddhist Studies Center says the monk police have also proved surprisingly effective...
...films lately, Mitchell maintains that there have been many great films released during the past few years, but that a number of them simply do not receive the publicity they deserve. This is where Mitchell feels he comes in as a critic—he says he can help steer moviegoers towards excellent films that fly under the mainstream radar. In fact, throughout the one-hour session Mitchell mentioned a film called Lumumba that has been sorely ignored and urged the audience to try to see it if at all possible...
...tell you what Johnny Reb wears under his uniform--a kilt! By God, we've got to win this war, or they will steer the whole nation into haggis-eating, caber-tossing degeneracy...
...contacts. In the mid-1990s, while overseeing construction of an oil pipeline in northern Algeria, Elder learned from local sources of a series of killings committed by the rebel Groupe Islamique Armee. This intelligence scoop--the government didn't announce the killings for several days--allowed Elder to steer employees safely away from the danger zones and keep the project on schedule. Indeed, throughout his years as a corporate security manager for BECHTEL and as a consultant to other companies, Elder, now retired, says he never once recommended canceling a project. "My role was to determine what the risk...