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...poured into the streets to grieve on Friday. In the aftermath of last week’s calamitous bombing of a train in Madrid, an estimated 12 million people throughout Spain came together to cry out against the violence of terrorism. Thursday’s attacks were a grievous horror; 200 killed, 1,400 wounded. Slaughter of this magnitude causes emotion of inexpressible depth—made all the more upsetting because only now have investigators learned who was responsible and what their motive was. What happened in Madrid was so atrocious as to seem inhuman, and yet the world...
...Obviously they were inspired by the horror of Vietnam,” he says. “It took me a long time of doing research and talking to people before I actually appreciated how horrific...
...they have done in the past, western media outlets covered the event with equal parts fascination and horror. Graphic images of the Ashura procession were the most popular photographs on Yahoo! early last week, and virtually all the major newspapers and television networks eagerly reported on the self-mutilation ritual before it was overshadowed by terror attacks in Karbala and Baghdad later that day. Though the coverage varied in style and tone, the skewed focus on Ashura’s violent rather than religious aspects seemed to reflect the media’s prejudices as much more than the holiday...
...within days because she decides she doesn't love him. The remainder of the book is a detailed portrait of a hopeless emotional dynamic between a needy doormat, a manipulative neurotic and the various ancillary lovers that get involved with them. "David Chelsea in Love" reads like a comical horror show, compelling you to keep turning pages while sucking wind through your teeth at each new development. Even if the story gets a little exasperating (Dump her already!) you can at least count on a good sex scene very ten pages...
...discovering what sitcoms have known for decades: people love to watch other people work. In the real world, workers may be worried about outsourcing, downsizing and on-the-job surveillance, but on TV, cutthroat, anxious work under surveillance is becoming big entertainment--perhaps in the same way that horror movies and roller coasters make anxiety fun. For Fox reality chief Mike Darnell (who's making Casino, about working in, you guessed it, a casino, with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett), the series also focus on timeless universals. "In our society," he says, "you get married, have babies and go to work...