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...Iraq was already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed people, it was their liberation." But we have learned the hard...
...want a sense of just how terrible Monday's crimes were, here's something to try: imagine yourself committing them. It's easy enough to contemplate what it would feel like to rob a bank or steal a car; you might even summon a hint of the outlaw frisson that could make such crimes seem appealing. But picture yourself as Cho Seung-Hui, the 23-year-old student responsible for the Virginia Tech bloodbath, walking the halls of the school, selecting lives to extinguish and then ... extinguishing them. It is perhaps a measure of our humanity that we could sooner...
...singing loudly, I gingerly make my way toward the hard-core revelers surrounding the band. It's way past dusk and it is still sweltering. The parade has ended and everyone around me is either tipsy or covered in foam or both. And then, just as I summon up the courage to jump in, Alice in Wonderland stops alongside me and scratches his beard. At 61 years old, Virgilio Borba has seen a few carnivals in his time, but blocos like this, he says, are almost like the old days. "Our lives are spent inside, in shopping malls, offices, gyms...
...there, the production has sidestepped all the problems of making the music carry the plot by keeping the 17-strong cast and band onstage throughout. Between them, in thickest Jamaican patois and the merest whiff of ganja smoke, they summon the saucy spirit of the Kingston dancehall one minute, the legend of the outlaw the next. Best of all they rip through glorious renditions of hit after hit. Make room, Mamma Mia! For as sure as the sun will shine, The Harder They Come is gonna get its share...
...butchery, but history has been somewhat kinder to the King, who may or may not have wanted his wish thus fulfilled. As soon as Henry learned that the knights who overheard his question had hastily departed from his court, he guessed their mission and sent a messenger to summon them back. And when he heard that his onetime friend Becket had indeed been murdered, according to the contemporary chronicle of Arnulf of Lisieux, "the King burst into loud cries of grief ... At times he seemed stupefied with suffering, but then he would begin groaning again and calling out more loudly...