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...sheet music for a Brahms intermezzo is open on the Russian-made Rathke grand piano that rests in the salon. Wearing a gray sweat suit and teddy-bear slippers, Maha Shamas is fretting about how people view Palestinian women. First, it is the way foreigners interpret the ululating jubilation of Palestinian mothers whose children have died as "martyrs." To a Westerner, it looks like an unconscionable celebration of the death of a child. "Palestinian women have been dehumanized so much that people are willing to believe this," she says. "It's the ultimate racism. It assumes that Palestinian mothers...
This week is TV-Turnoff Week, which was created by a nonprofit group called the TV-Turnoff Network--a group that in its eighth year, being generous, is only 1/52 toward its goal. I felt it my responsibility as a journalist to play Russian space monkey for you, and test drive a TV-less week seven days before the real thing starts on April 22. To get the rules straight, I called the TV-Turnoff Network, where spokesman Frank Vespe nixed renting movies, playing videogames and taping this week's shows for later viewing. Reading TV Guide, however...
...Montgomery is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law (where he made law review), The Monterey Language School in Russian, the University of Pennsylvania (where he was nominated to be a Rhodes scholar), and Westminster School of Simsbury, Connecticut...
...version of passive resistance. Perhaps his naivety was as huge as his talent. He believed that Hollywood moguls would give a black actor (any actor) final cut, and that Stalinism was not slavery but liberation. Through three decades of Soviet tyranny (including the murder of one of his Russian-Jewish friends), he remained faithful to the U.S.S.R. And here his charm failed him. He could sell sand to Saharans, but he couldn't peddle Stalin to America. Widely popular in the early 40s, he was a pariah by 1950, denied a passport until 1958, spurned by mainstream black groups, forgotten...
...only peace with Israel would allow Arab nations to agree to an American attack. Although that advice may be true now, to ensure the long-term interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, Cheney should call up his oil-industry buddies and tell them to jump into the Russian oil market. For the road to Baghdad might just lead through Karachaganak...