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...throes of a socio-economic catastrophe. In many cases their jobs have simply disappeared, gangsters are helping themselves to the nation's treasures and such basic services as electricity and potable water are suddenly no longer reliably available. The difference, is that the Russians had no one to blame; the Iraqis have the U.S. occupation authority...
...others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles. Rumfseld is probably correct in asserting there are a number of different elements at work. But the Defense Secretary may also be a little too inclined to blame the problem exclusively on die-hard Baathists and criminals. (It is certainly difficult to imagine what motive criminals would have for attacking U.S. forces, since they have been among the greatest beneficiaries of the breakdown in security that followed Saddam's collapse, and they presumably have far more lucrative...
...Bahal: The government just couldn't believe that journalists would be foolish enough to do such a big story without an ulterior motive. They tried to blame the whole dotcom crash on us! They scared away our investors. At one point I had 10 bodyguards assigned to me. After a while, it became distasteful...
...Royale set off a maelstrom even before it hit the screens in December 2000. Based on a popular 1999 novel by Koushun Takami, the film's graphic, almost gleeful violence, most of it perpetrated by school kids against each other, provided an easy target for conservative politicians eager to blame pop culture for a youth-crime wave sweeping the country. The free publicity boosted Battle Royale to a stratum of box-office success usually reserved for cartoons and TV-drama spin-offs. The film raked in $25 million in Japan alone?a formidable haul, given the depressed state...
...They have death to blame. The first Battle Royale was the work of Kinji Fukasaku, a legendary director of yakuza films known for his deftness at blending violence and black humor. When he died of cancer at the age of 72, having completed only one day of shooting on the sequel, his 30-year-old son Kenta?author of both films' screenplays but lacking in directorial experience?took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises...