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...scanned with ultrasensitive metal detectors, their purses % ransacked. The bodyguards, members of Arafat's elite Force 17, open the matchboxes and start striking the matches in the dark courtyard to be sure they do not contain detonating devices. Over the years Arafat has probably had more people trying to kill him than any other public figure in the world. Closest to succeeding were the Israelis, who might have buried him under the rubble in the Tunis bombing raid that killed 73 people in 1985, had the Chairman not been running late that day. Now Israel wants to keep him alive...
...time'' after Munich, he gave peacemakers a reputation for fatuous optimism and appeasement from which it took them years to recover. Philosophers of war since Hiroshima have taught, hopefully, that the nuclear threat has made armed conflict ultimately untenable as a Clausewitzian instrument (foreign policy that happens to kill) useful in settling disputes. But not everyone has absorbed the lesson. Among other things, war has an archetypal prestige and bristling drama with which peace has trouble competing: Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost is much more interesting than Milton's God. War is rich and vivid, with its traditions...
...it’s not that he’s a bad guy—he just enjoys torturing his trainees. Siek’s tough love continues when the marines ship out to fight Saddam. The desert heat gradually drives the soldiers stir-crazy. Socialized to kill, they become frustrated by the lack of combat and take out their aggression on each other and themselves. This volatile situation is only exacerbated by the appearance of actual Iraqis, who show up late in the movie and don’t stick around for long. Near the film?...
...people will die if avian flu spreads to humans but how many millions. But my greatest concern is my flock of 175 diversified heritage chickens, happily free ranging down by the barn. I fear for their safety should an epidemic result in a government agency's decision to kill all poultry. Would I be able to maintain the diversity and beauty of my backyard flock, producing eggs for my community, if a bureaucrat decided to demonstrate the government's power to control? I'm already planning a place to hide my chickens. Sue Kolbo Red Bluff, California...
...storytelling skill" and "conspiratorial murmurs." Then, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he earned the scorn of officials at the CIA and State Department for inserting unchecked, raw intelligence into speeches to vilify Saddam Hussein and boost the case for war. One hard-to-kill Libby favorite: the irresistible tale about how 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague five months before the hijackings. That red herring kept creeping back into Vice President Dick Cheney's speeches long after it had been debunked...