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...tape lasts just over two minutes, like a trailer for an upcoming horror flick. Three Arab men appear in separate shots: one has wide eyes and a gesticulating left hand; another appears to read from a text, never looking up at the camera; the third buries his head between his knees, then cozies up to a Kalashnikov and smiles. The silent footage, released by the Justice Department last Thursday, was spliced together from five tapes recovered by allied forces in the rubble of the home of Mohammed Atef, al-Qaeda's operations mastermind who was killed...
...referee, Michael Costin (6 ft., 156 lbs.), for allowing it. Costin snapped back, "That's hockey." The two men scuffled, and Junta left the arena. He returned and repeatedly whacked the ref, knocking him out, as the children, including Junta's son and three of Costin's, watched in horror. The force of the blows ruptured an artery in Costin's neck, resulting in a severe brain hemorrhage. He fell into a coma and died the next...
...most popular epic hero; that was Kunta Kinte, the African whom author Alex Haley identified as his ancestor and whose family's 200-year saga became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson in the horror of slavery. The event is recalled in an NBC special (this Friday) and the series' DVD release. Sprawling and stolid, Roots today evokes two vanished eras: the antebellum South, when blacks could earn dignity but not freedom; and those eight wintry nights when a whole nation could sit, rapt and appalled, before...
...lugubrious names bestowed on the ruins refer to a few days of horror in 1222, when Genghis Khan's armies razed the city and massacred all its inhabitants as punishment for resistance. You can still find human bones here, says Nasir, my guide. The Taliban were great art looters as well as destroyers, it seems: they dug here for treasure and, in the process, brought human remains to the surface. To illustrate this, Nasir pokes around in an earthen bank with a stick, discarding bits of animal bones, and finally pulls out a human vertebra. The soldiers offer a more...
Terrence Mann is probably the finest baritone of his generation. Having originated lead roles in shows from Les Miserables to Beauty and the Beast to The Scarlet Pimpernel, his resume almost overqualifies him for the Rocky Horror Show. Though the production is a delight, Mann’s casting was curious, for the silver-maned 50 year-old actor seemed simply too distinguished to play a decadent transvestite. But Mr. Mann not only fills the rather large high-heels left by original lead Tom Hewitt, but exceeds his predecessor. Mann, whose performance is musical in all aspects, created a vocally...