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...Saddam Hussein as an "evil man" may have sent a few shivers up the spine of U.S. allies who want the anti-terror campaign confined to Al Qaeda and Afghanistan, but he confined himself to warning the Iraqi leader against supporting terrorism or taking advantage of U.S. distraction to stir up trouble...
Also by 1998, Gob was working with the big-budget motion picture industry. They covered The Rolling Stones’ standard, “Paint It Black” for the soundtrack of Artisan Pictures’ feature film Stir of Echoes. Starring Kevin Bacon, the film was released internationally and viewed by millions—about as mainstream as it gets...
...shock me that many Americans were not brought to tears. In the past, we have remained calm as thousands died in mass genocide in the Balkans and Africa. Yet, where has been our fundamental love, not for principle, but for humanity itself? Shouldn’t that love stir us in times like these, softening our hearts of their outrage and disgust, so that we may know the depths of our shared sorrow...
...serves as a reminder of the complex geopolitical challenges involved in building and sustaining the broad coalition necessary to root out terrorism. That challenge is about a lot more than simply rounding up a posse to go into Afghanistan and arrest or kill Osama Bin Laden. President Bush may stir American feelings by invoking the image of a Wild Western "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster, but listen closely to Secretary of State Colin Powell: "Osama bin Laden is the chairman of the holding company, and within that holding company are terrorist cells and organizations in dozens of countries around...
...human-to-human heart transplant in 1967; of an asthma attack; while vacationing in Cyprus. More dramatic than the surgery itself--Barnard called the technique "basic"--was that he proceeded when other heart-transplant surgeons, who had operated only on animals, were reluctant. An antiapartheid activist, he caused a stir when he later transplanted the heart of a young man of mixed race into a well-to-do white man. The thrice-married Barnard unabashedly enjoyed the fruits of his fame. "I love the female sex," he told TIME earlier this month. "I like to enjoy life...