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...draw from the event." It is to be released in Paris on Sept. 11 and may well prove controversial, since some of the films depict stridently anti-American attitudes. Artists in the third category are those trying to influence future events. The Oxford Research Group, a British pacifist think tank, is to mount a series of performances around Sept. 11 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Music by Chloë Goodchild, who was flying over New York near the time of the attacks, will alternate with poetry readings and speeches from those who have renounced violence. "The arts...
...tough talk now demands action, argues arch-hawk Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon think tank. He responded to Scowcroft's critique by warning, "The failure to take on Saddam after what the president [has] said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the president that it would set back the war on terrorism...
Some politicians can use weaponry to look cool--remember Yeltsin on a tank? But at a recent reception in a supporter's house in Atlanta, the strategy backfired on campaigning Republican Representative BOB BARR of Georgia. A National Rifle Association board member and gun-safety advocate, Barr was inspecting a 1908-model Colt .38-cal. pistol with his friend, lobbyist Bruce Widener, when the weapon discharged. Nobody was hurt, but Representative John Linder, Barr's opponent in the Republican primary for the state's Seventh District, found plenty of ammunition. At his next appearance with Barr, he joked...
...turret will be on display in a giant tank at the Mariners'Museum in Newport News, Va., for at least the next decade. That's how long it will take to slowly remove rust and organic matter encrusting the turret and restore the parts...
...tank is filled with a chemical solution that will begin to remove the salts and organic encrustations from the iron. Electrodes that give off a tiny current may be added to help the process...