Word: warriorism
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...originally from the Boston area, her film Double Dare deals with a phenomenon not normally encountered in the Northeast—stuntwomen. The film documents two individual stuntwomen named Jeannie, the stunt double for Wonder Woman in the 1970s, and Zöe, the stunt double for Xena: Warrior Princess...
...individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy. "I ran to Biafra," he has said, "because I was too young for Guernica, Auschwitz, Oradour and Setif." He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against...
...film begins with the end of the 1836 battle: a visual requiem for the dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...
...Teague had gone to Iraq just two weeks after his seventh wedding anniversary, hoping to help pay for his son's college education and get back in the thick of things. "This was the kind of work Mike loved," says friend John Menische. "He was a soldier and a warrior." The gruesome deaths of Teague and his colleagues on the road to Fallujah made one thing clear above all: for their former brethren in the U.S. military, there are still battles to fight...
...Clarke's assault was effective, it was partly because he used the tools of an old warrior, surprise and preparation. First he produced a closely guarded book more than a year in the making, Against All Enemies, whose revelations he unveiled on 60 Minutes three days before his testimony, broadcast live on the cable networks. His case was devastating: the Bush Administration, he claimed, had dillydallied in its approach to terrorism, ignoring warnings and shelving counterstrategies, getting serious only after the tragedy of 9/11 and then bungling its efforts by launching a diversionary war in Iraq. The day after Clarke...