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...Essay: Asia Vs...
...religious overtones to battle cries that were once mostly secular and nationalistic, "people have started holding all Muslims responsible for what those fighters did - and what Sudan did and what bin Laden did," Roald says. Some Muslims have reacted by retreating into the safety of "the idea of us vs. them." At the office, where she's studying the role of religious minorities in the modern nation-state, she feels as if she has to "work four times as hard to show my credibility because people are only perceived as objective if they think like the majority." Since Sept...
...battle when Israeli troops supported by helicopter gunships and 25 tanks entered Gaza's al-Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli army claimed most of the victims were members of militant groups and that at least five were from Hamas. Palestinians accused troops of firing indiscriminately. IRAQ Kurd vs. Kurd At least 45 fighters were killed in a battle between two groups of Iraqi Kurds. The Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda, launched an attack on positions held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The anti-Saddam p.u.k., which controls the eastern section of the autonomous zone...
...matter which kind of phone you're considering, a few other factors are worth keeping in mind. First, ask about battery life. While I liked the reception best on the Uniden, for example, it can go only four hours between charges vs. eight on the Vtech. Next, find out if the phone is analog or digital. Both 5.8-MHz phones are digital, but that's not always the case with the models that use other frequencies, and this makes them an easier target for eavesdroppers. The best digitals use digital spread-spectrum (DDS) technology, which sends the signal down...
Fellowship was released only three months after the Sept. 11 attacks, and its good-vs.-evil quest spoke to audiences looking for old-fashioned moral clarity. Just as readers in the 1950s (when the books were published) found parallels to World War II, and hippies of the 1960s delighted in Tolkien's peace-loving hobbits, a new generation has embraced Tolkien's nostalgic vision of a lost world, an imagined past both idyllic and brutal. Indeed, the passion for the first movie and this one is part of a new American obsession with fantasy, a national journey to a mythical...