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...soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either end of the road were parked tanks and military trucks. Behind was the Tak Bai river. "It was frightening," recalls one of the protesters, Ai (not her real name), the 38-year-old wife of a rice farmer. "Even if we did want to leave?as the army were telling us to?we felt trapped...
...Considering his dark contribution, history was remarkably kind to Pol Pot. Born Saloth Sar to a relatively prosperous rice-farming family, he had an eclectic education that included spells as both a Buddhist novitiate and a Roman Catholic schoolboy. A mediocre student, he won a scholarship to study in Paris largely because so few candidates applied. There, the future communist leader read the works of Marx ("I didn't really understand them," he confessed) and, more usefully, a Stalinist political primer that urged "pitiless repression" of all enemies. Inspired in part by the French Revolution, Pol Pot's hotchpotch ideology...
...ways the two men have diverged since that fateful day. For Bush, the attacks were the catalyst for war not just against Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network but also against any state that harbored, sponsored or supported terrorists. Even more ambitiously, as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told TIME, Bush soon concluded that a "permanent peace is only going to come when you've dealt with the conditions that produced terrorists, and that means a different kind of Middle East." That, in part, led to the most fateful presidential decision in a generation: the invasion of Iraq...
...said in 1999. "They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment." Bush's faith in military force became the guiding tenet of his presidency after 9/11. "He determined on that day that you could not fight this war just on defense," Rice says. "It's an unfair fight when they have to be right once and you have to be right 100% of the time." Despite the strain on U.S. forces and the rising death toll in Iraq, Bush has refused to revise that basic premise. "We will fight the terrorists around...
...case you just can’t do the “Time Warp” at the Saturday night performances at the Harvard Square Loew’s, try The Footlight Club’s live version of The Rocky Horror Show. Leave your water pistols and rice at home, the producers want to keep the historical Eliot Hall in good condition. Call (617) 524-3200 for more info. Tickets $21. 8 p.m. Running Oct. 29 through Nov. 13. Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain...