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...month ago, President Bush was on a crusade against the media "filter" that he believed was stopping the American people getting the good news on Iraq. Now, it appears, the President himself has been the victim of a "filter" - in the form of Vice President Cheney and the Rumsfeld crowd at the Pentagon who have kept the bad news from Iraq off his desk. Indeed, it was to make an end-run around that particular "filter" that a bleak CIA assessment of U.S. operations in Iraq was leaked to the media. The analysis, written by the CIA's Baghdad station...
...court to rule against Mugabe, and the MDC's real audience will be in South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has been one of the President's most faithful apologists. "As long as Mugabe thinks he is being supported by his African brothers, he will see himself as a victim, not as the perpetrator," says MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. "If the African countries were to stop supporting Mugabe, there would be a sea change." Of course, you won't read about that in the Daily News, Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper. The publication was shut down in September after...
...victim, a slightly built, middle-aged rice farmer, told TIME of beatings by Burmese soldiers who forced villagers to carry heavy loads through the jungle, sometimes for weeks at a stretch. "The government calls us volunteers," he said. "But the truth is, we were slaves...
Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions; it falls victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. In any case, The Human Stain is a story better left in print...
...wonder what Steven Spielberg does in this situation? I remember once saying to an actress at the end of the first take of a scene, "That was so brilliant. I didn't realize the scene was so serious. You brought a real profundity." And then she was a Belsen victim. She pulled in her cheeks and dropped her brow on every other take...