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...powerful brother-in-law blamed the Americans. Some Sadrists believed rival Shi'ite militias may have been behind the killing; while others posit that it may have been an inside job from within the Sadr ranks. Only one thing is certain - the assassination has raised an outcry among Sadr's followers and threatened to push Iraq further into a relapse of sectarian violence, just as the Iraqi government prepared to lift its curfew on Sadr City, the battered Baghdad slum which is Sadr's stronghold...
...this day no one knows who perpetrated the crime or what their motives were, director Roger Donaldson and screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have had to make up most of their tale. On the whole, they've made a pretty good job of it. For example, they posit the scandalous possibility that pictures of Princess Margaret, engaging in a threesome on a Caribbean island have been stored in one of the boxes by a real-life villain named Michael X, a drug dealer posing as a black power advocate. He's using the snaps to protect himself from...
...wisdom like “some just want some layin’.” Therefore, it behooves me to instead confront the deeper issues that this video raises. The chorus—“We all want the same thing”—seems to posit an idyllic utopia populated by both strippers and ex-boyfriends that would bring a tear to V. I. Lenin’s eye. But if Ms. Tequila and her stripper friends all want the same thing, then why are they fighting with each other for the attention of all these...
...they’re the latest to present the issue of creative aimlessness in a way that’s accessible to the people that are most affected by it: contemporary indie music lovers.Manhattan group Vampire Weekend, however, is the most recent group to try to posit a solution. To give you an idea of their sound: if African chanteuse Angélique Kidjo produced a mash-up cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and the Talking Heads’ “(Anything But) Flowers” that was performed...
...friends the neoconservatives, the folks who provided the intellectual rationale for Bush's war in Iraq, many of whom are now itching for a war with Iran. Norman Podhoretz, the neocon paterfamilias, has written a trifle called World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism and loves to posit Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden-a far more dangerous character-as the heirs to Hitler and Stalin. "They follow the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism," he writes. This is incendiary foolishness. Terrorists have the ability to wreak terrible damage intermittently, but they don't represent an existential threat...