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...told Time by telephone. "The people were angry with the rigged election, mass arrests and inhuman treatment of the detainees." Khalip says that Alexander Kozulin, a key opposition leader and a presidential candidate in the election, led a protest march to the jail in Okrestina Street. Then things turned violent. "My husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand," Irina Kozulin told TIME in a call from Minsk. "But before he started talking, the officer ordered an attack. They knocked my husband off his feet, started beating him up and then dragged him away...
...taxation. Historians and sociologists have long claimed that May '68 vaccinated the Fifth Republic against instability and upheaval. But look at recent years. First, the far right has a strong showing in the 2002 presidential elections, then France thumbs its nose at the European constitution in May 2005, then violent unrest rocks the banlieues last fall. And now we have the anti-cpe explosion. It all shows that France is reverting to its old habits. Today, as in the past, the naysayers are hardly a homogeneous group. They include blue- and white-collar workers threatened by globalization, who increasingly abstain...
...Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...whim of their captors, or, else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing. They were still snatched, still held for months, and Fox was still brutalized and executed. With ever more chilling surety, there is barely any quarter being given in this war. Every foreigner...
...their own, a marked difference from a year ago. Two larger operations, one near the capital, the other to its north, had snared more than a hundred prisoners and some enemy weapons caches, he said. But sectarian killings were escalating, as extremists? death squads on both sides of a violent divide in one week are suspected to have left almost 134 bodies in the capital alone. "We are dealing with a vicious enemy," the general intoned, "now focused on inflaming sectarian violence...