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...researched Sickert’s work, she became more and more disturbed by his live subjects’ “dead” appearance and his other paintings of actual murder scenes. “Some of these sitters look dead. There’s something violent,” she said. Cornwell added that Sickert was “in the right place at the right time for these murders to have occurred,” and that he had a strange fascination with Jack the Ripper. At one point, he created a painting in which the murderer...
...Arab world is at a crossroads, with democratic impulses facing off with a violent religious fundamentalism. We want the democratic forces to prevail. So this U.N. force is there to strengthen the Lebanese government...
...actress Patricia Clarkson. But prospective tourists could be forgiven if they're still confused. Almost since the slow recovery began, New Orleans has been sending mixed messages, begging the federal government for more financial help and asking the state to send in the National Guard to help battle a violent crime wave, while assuring skittish tourists and convention planners that the city's historic attractions are intact, the hospitality infrastructure is up and running and public safety in tourist zones remains nothing to worry about...
...name an enemy or tie "insurgents and death squads" to larger political movements. Col. Michael Shields' Stryker Brigade, which spent a year in Mosul, had its mission extended by four months and is now working with the Iraqi Army to cordon off and search west Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods. "We're not targeting organizations," said Col. Michael Shields. "We're targeting the threats to the security of the people...
...according to local officials, about 8,000 of which are Hispanics, or more than a quarter of the residents. Police Chief Robert Ferdinand said he doesn't have good statistics yet to prove it, but his officers are reporting an increasing number of illegal immigrants being involved with violent incidents. He said his officers arrest an illegal immigrant about once a week - something that hardly ever happened just three or four years ago. "We are seeing a lot of younger criminal aliens coming out of New York City and other larger cities," Chief Ferdinand told TIME. "They might have friends...