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BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Michael Moore’s quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Bowling for Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Winner of this year?...
...teams have done a lot to assist in the successful invasion of Iraq. However, their military mission in An Najaf is over now and it is time to bring them back under adult supervision. What An Najaf needs now is the rule of law, not continued rule of the gun...
...Search for the Smoking Gun...
...Some Kurdish peshmerga soldiers tried to stop men looting an oil refinery office. One orange and white taxi came out with a rusty refrigerator on top. An angry peshmerga demanded he put it back, but the looter had a gun. And so he went on. Other cars continued to stream out of the refinery parking lot, with leather office chairs and air conditioners tied precariously to the tops of their cars...
...Kurdish leaders claimed that the men who entered Kirkuk were irregulars who, in the exuberance of Saddam Hussein's apparent loss of power the day before, couldn't be held back from Kirkuk any longer. It's a hard claim to judge, since every Kurdish man has a gun and many soldiers don't wear uniforms. And the Americans, if they didn't approve the operation, at least seemed to tolerate it. A column of 60 Humvees from the 173rd Airborne Brigade rumbled down the highway from Erbil, but they stopped short of Kirkuk. Only a few Americans were easily...