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Critics slam the Administration for having provoked Kim with its bellicose, axis-of-evil rhetoric--"It's like yelling at a guy who's aiming a gun at you," laments a Pentagon official--and then downplaying the North Korean danger so as not to disrupt its timetable for a strike against Iraq. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher told TIME that the Administration "seems to have almost an obsession" with Saddam. "I'm concerned that we seem to be lurching toward war without taking into account what our priorities should be." The White House insists that Iraq remains a greater...
...feeling quite sick," said chairman Lee Jasper, a race-relations adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone. At a Whitehall summit called by Home Secretary David Blunkett, politicians, bureaucrats and police officers expressed grave concern over the latest crime statistics. That both meetings, which took place last week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed...
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, 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. Bowling for Columbine screens...
...audience, watching The Two-Character Play constantly challenges the notion of reality and illusion. At one point, Felice draws a gun with the intention to commit suicide. It is up to the audience to determine whether this crucial moment is real or acted...
...Secretary Powell said this week that the Bush Administration has recently provided intelligence to help focus the inspectors' work on targets where a smoking gun, or at least some traces of smoke, might be revealed. And the inspectors plan to soon begin taking Iraqi scientists abroad for questioning - a key demand of the Bush Administration to ensure that the inspection process has the best chance of establishing the facts on Saddam's weapons programs. Still, conducting such interviews may be far from easy, since they rely on the consent of the individual Iraqi scientist, which may not be forthcoming...