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...front. Hundreds of thousands of Iranian soldiers died in the eight-year war, and more than 400,000 were injured, many by land mines. The celebration of martyrdom, a tenet of Islam's Shia branch, provided the backbone for a revolutionary rhetoric that idealized sacrifice?an important propaganda tool for a young theocracy struggling to justify an ongoing war and a harsh Islamic regime. Veterans who had risked life and limb to defend their country were hailed as living martyrs. But for many, such as Kashfia, hero status was not enough. "The injured felt useless, with no role in society...
...lasting ideological struggle." Appearing on the Today show last week, he seemed to express doubts that the U.S. can extinguish the threat of terrorism. "I don't think we can win it," he said. "But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." A day later, Bush revised his position, saying that while "we may never sit down at a peace table ... we are winning and we will win." Still, his vacillations suggest an acknowledgment of the truth: at the very least, the battle...
...past three years, the spiritual appeal of fundamentalism has been buttressed by a political imperative: defending Islam against the U.S. The American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan has provided militant clerics like Pakistan's Maulana Abdul Aziz with a potent recruiting tool. Every Friday at the so-called Red Mosque, which sits a mile from the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, Aziz incites his followers to take up arms against the U.S. The government of President Pervez Musharraf has told Aziz to tone down his rhetoric, but he has refused. "I told them that...
DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the C.T. scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who had worked independently on the idea...
...ratings the network has seen in more than four years. The Days, about the midlife angst of a dual-income couple raising three kids, is a "win-win-win situation," says Peter Tortorici, president of MindShare and former president of CBS Entertainment. "It enables programmers to have an additional tool to accomplish their larger goal--more programming for the viewer...