Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what do I think? I enjoyed the movie. Thetense images of unpredictable terror scared me,the injustices angered me, Frank's plight movedme. I didn't sit through The Siege--I feltvery much a part of it. Zwick explains, "Movieshave taken on this role of being entirely toocomfortable and predictable...it's a verytranquil, almost soporific exercise. I don't thinkmovies have to be that way, I think they can beprovocative, and unsettling, and galvanizing, andupsetting. I don't necessarily think that bytalking about the possibilities of internment, orby talking about repression, that one galvanizesrepression, I think one galvanizes thought...
First-years heard the horror stories about the dread of the "bum, bum, budum, bum" of a cappella groups, but never fully understood the true terror until the jams kept coming with no end in sight. Weekend after weekend after weekend after weekend a different group vied for their money and struck fear into their hearts. But the end has come. The Harvard-Yale Jam, features The Radcliffe Pitches, The Harvard Din and Tonics, Dukes Men of Yale and Yale Whim N Rhythm. Prove that you're hardcore and make it to the encore. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre...
...Memorandum requires that the Palestinian side pursues a policy of "zero tolerance for terror and violence" and "take all measures necessary in order to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities," thereby subordinating the human rights of Palestinians in the name of Israel's arguably overstated security imperative. Indeed, Human Rights Watch has found that since the signing of the Memorandum two weeks ago, there have been widespread instances of torture of Palestinians during interrogations as well as unfair trials...
Respectable antiabortion groups disavow violence, unlike Pro-Life Virginia, whose founder, the Rev. Donald Spitz, called Slepian's killer a hero carrying out his Christian duty. But they see their goals achieved through terror, such as the receipt, at four clinics last Friday, of letters supposedly containing anthrax, which sent 33 people to the hospital. What good is the right to an abortion if there's no way to get one? There are fewer clinics today (one in all of Buffalo, for example), and they are more widely dispersed. Far fewer doctors do the procedure, and even fewer are being...
...Boston Public Library does it again. Today, the "Making a Difference" film series will be showcasing Weapons of the Spirits, the inspirational and true story about a French village that sheltered Jews from the Nazi terror during World War II. 6 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Central Branch Library, Copley Square. 536-5400. FREE...