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...relative calm in the capital city set in relief a week when explosions killed more than 500 Iraqis across the country and threatened to reverse tenuous gains by U.S. and Iraqi forces in stemming sectarian violence. Since the security crackdown began seven weeks ago in Baghdad, executions in the capital have gone down from some 40 a day to less than 10, according to Iraqi police. But truck bombs in a Shi'ite section of the northern city of Tal Afar earlier in the week sparked a gruesome round of reprisals that saw local police officers executing some 70 Sunnis...
...which will be privileged in different settings.Though Sen examines contemporary situations, he continually returns to historical examples in which recognition of multiple identities averted tragedy. For example, early Islamic leaders defended both their faith and religious diversity within their kingdoms.The connections between such examples and modern events often seem tenuous. Still, Sen’s demonstration of how the concept of group identity can be manipulated has obvious applications to such subjects as Rwandan genocide and Al Qaeda terrorism. Sen offers his most profound observation when he addresses current attempts to decrease inter-group tensions in countries like Britain, where...
President Bush is right to revive the principle of sacrifice in the American political lexicon, for surely all of the problems we face as nation—whether the war in Iraq, global climate change, the rising cost of health care, or the tenuous state of Social Security—will require a diversion of our own short-term interests for the long-term interests of the nation. But unless this sacrifice comes from all parts of society, relying not only on the valor of the few but also the discipline of the many, then such endeavors are destined...
Snyder is one of a small, hypertechnical fringe of directors who are exploring a new way to make movies by discarding props, sets, extras and real-life locations and replacing them with their computer-generated equivalents. Cinema has always had a tenuous connection to reality; they're severing it almost completely. It's a technique loosely known as "digital back lot." George Lucas was a pioneer, as was Kerry Conran, the lonely genius responsible for the much praised, little-seen Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In Robert Rodriguez's cult hit Sin City (also based on a Miller...
Harvard held a tenuous 1-0 lead late in the third period when the Bulldogs’ Sarah Tittman found teammate Mandi Schwartz open just outside of the crease. Tittman, working from behind the net, slipped a centering pass through to Schwartz, who knocked the puck past sophomore goaltender Brittany Martin to knot the score...