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Like any savvy traveler who finds himself in hostile territory, George W. Bush tends to seek out safe havens when he comes to Europe. In November 2003, as the insurgents' reign of terror was taking hold in Iraq, the President ventured as far as Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Queen greeted him warmly; Bush never went near the streets full of protesters, let alone the Continent. Last June, before visiting Normandy for the 60th anniversary of D-day, he dropped in on his ally Silvio Berlusconi in Rome - and the demonstrations were no less virulent. But this...
...through the double feature, talking down the stars onscreen. At about 2 a.m. he would propose, as if spontaneously, "Let's go and get something to eat." No one said no. Everyone would ride 10 miles to Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo and begin another of the booze-fogged, terror-soaked marathon predawn dinners that the Minister of Cultural Terror, Yury Zhdanov, had convinced Stalin were the equivalent of the symposia of the ancient Greeks. "These vomit-flecked routs," the British biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore observes in Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Knopf; 785 pages), "were the closest...
...kindnesses, a man who proudly displayed his piles of fresh, clean underwear (which he boasted he changed every day!). After Hiroshima, Stalin reflected, "War is barbaric, but using the Abomb is a superbarbarity." This from the man whose Ukrainian famine killed some 10 million, the impresario of the Great Terror, the man who, after Russian soldiers had raped some 2 million women across East Prussia and Germany, asked, "What is so awful about [a soldier's] having...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
Through a process which Beibin describes as “cultural appropriation,” filmmaker Mike Norris created one of the festival’s more memorable moments, reorganizing a political speech given by President Bush by linking his words into three main familiar themes: terror, Iraq and weapons. His editing techniques highlighted the power and significance that these overused words have assumed, leaving a babbling Bush repeating “terror,” “terrorism,” “tool of torture,” followed by applause from the audience and dozens...