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...dual set of The Killers, both the 1946 Robert Siodmak original of Hemingway's story about a man who welcomes his own murder - it's Burt Lancaster's sleepy-eyed, long-muscled film debut - and Don Siegel's hyped-up 1964 remake that was made for TV but too violent for broadcast...
...impressively adaptive, and would very likely have found a way of expressing its nasty politics even with twice as many American boots on the ground. And the sectarian rivalries that are fueling the civil war are as much present in the democratic political institutions as they are on the violent streets. It's way too simple to imagine that Iraq turned disastrous because of a few bad tactical choices that can be attributed to Rumsfeld. The morbid symptoms that have plagued post-Saddam Iraq were predicted, long before the invasion, by such veterans of the first President Bush's administration...
...find a way around the Supreme Court order, even if that means changing the Constitution. The Court's order is opposed by the ruling Congress Party and its main opposition, while Delhi's Municipal Corporation says it cannot carry out any more sealings because of the danger of a violent backlash. But after another hearing on Monday, the Supreme Court was adamant: The sealing drive will continue...
...nuclear nonproliferation isn't as clear to me as your article makes out. I suspect that the U.S.'s current work on tactical nuclear weapons and our unwillingness to reduce our inventory of warheads are in violation of the npt - making the U.S. an outlaw. If we're including violent tendencies in an analysis of risk, the U.S. is the only nuclear power to have used those weapons on human beings. I would say our role in leading nonproliferation enforcement efforts is somewhat hypocritical. We need to set a better example. Timothy C. Hohn Lake Forest Park, Washington, U.S. Negotiation...
...hard time believing this [verdict] will radically change people's minds," said Kenneth Pollack, an NSC staffer in the Clinton White House and now Director of Research at the Brooking Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "I think most people realize that Iraq is a pretty violent place, and any surge in violence is unlikely to shift many people's view...