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When the bomb went off shortly after 2 p.m., the narrow lane, crammed with people, acted as a muffler. Just 300 yards away there was only a low boom, like a faraway thunderclap. It was as if the sound had been absorbed by the tens of thousands of devout Shi'ites gathered outside their faith's holiest shrine to listen to Friday prayers over the speakers. But then a louder sound rumbled down the lane and into the nearby square--the anguished shriek emerging from a thousand throats. Panicked worshippers charged into the square, their dust-covered dishdashas spattered with...
That, of course, would only make the problem worse. In February, General Eric Shinseki, who was then Army Chief of Staff, set off fireworks when he said the U.S. might have to dedicate "several hundred thousand soldiers" to postwar duty in Iraq, a remark that looks prescient today. Before he left the service in June, Shinseki issued a warning to his colleagues who stayed behind. It was aimed as much at the security of the nation as the security of the troops and their families. "Beware," he warned, "the 12-division strategy for a 10-division Army." No one listened...
...wrenching tableau. A brutalized Jesus is displayed by Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, who announces derisively, "Ecce Homo," behold the man. A mob, ostensibly made up of Jesus' fellow Jews, responds with a bloodthirsty roar. They fill a massive courtyard; there must be a thousand of them...
...television networks. Scandinavian viewers rushed to their sets each morning to see how Seierstad, holed up in Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, had fared. "With TV, people think they know you, they care for you," she says, both touched and disturbed by the concern. "They don't care about thousands of Iraqi children, but they care if I survive." In The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad's account of staying with a family in Afghanistan in the months after the Taliban's fall, she accomplishes vividly in print what comes so easily on screen. Her portrait of Sultan Khan, the title subject...
Several minutes into the opening number of the Ruff Ryders--Cash Money concert in Albany, N.Y., in March 2000, rapper Eve--the only female member of the tour--glanced into the audience and noticed that a few thousand girls were dressed just like her. Dubbed the first lady of hip-hop, Eve had already released one megahit solo album, appeared in a Sprite spot and modeled for Tommy Hilfiger. Still, the concert was a key moment for her. She thought, What am I doing modeling other people's clothes...