Word: terrorism
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...insufficient to simply label detainees “enemy combatants” and forget about issues of their legal status—in an conflict of undeterminable length such as the War on Terror, this is tantamount to renouncing all of a prisoner’s rights...
...snowball. In fact, on the Dalai Lama's first full day in Taiwan, the two sides, once the most implacable of foes, inaugurated direct regular flights - the first since the Chinese civil war ended 60 years ago. New history cannot be denied. (See pictures of Taiwan's typhoon terror...
...TIME's photoessay "In Tehran, Terror in Plain Clothes...
...what makes the novel so exciting in hindsight is its overture—the first and perhaps the only significant one—to “2666.” That overture is its brush with the stuff of the latter’s dark invisible center: namely, terror. Bolaño’s vision of a small Spanish tourist town still firmly in the grip of Francisco Franco’s guardia civil is political in its subtlety; “The Skating Rink” never pushes up against the brutal reality of fascism except...
...only is sexual violence particularly abhorrent in conservative Iranian society, but the charges also challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic government by calling into question its foundation upon moral justice. The Islamic revolution was inspired in part by such abuse during the Shah's authoritarian rule. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...