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...Since its inception five years ago, Al Jazeera has been the toast of most Western media. American newsmagazines (including TIME) and newspapers sang the praises of the Doha-based satellite channel's defiantly novel approach to reporting news in the Middle East. By the late 1990s, CNN was so impressed by the news channel's coverage and influence that the Atlanta-based network added Al-Jazeera to their list of 200 international affiliates, a relationship that allows each network to use the other's video feed and pictures...
...wedding last January features bin Laden reading an ode he'd written to the bombing by his supporters of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, an attack that killed 17 service members. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles," he sang. "If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with...
...Iranians filled nearby Mirdamad Street, ignoring the shouts of police ordering them to disperse. The frightened group assembled to hold a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The Iranians - mostly young and middle class - held candles in the air and defiantly sang Iran's pre-revolutionary anthem as Mirdamad Street flickered in a sea of candlelight. Then, emboldened by growing numbers, they began to chant, "Marg bar terrorist (Death to terrorists...
Images of dogs, mutants and social outcasts permeate all 12 stories in Dogwalker. The first person narrator, who remains relatively consistent throughout, explores a dark, sinister and twisted world with such unperturbed sang-froid that the most outrageous and absolutely surreal events seen like common place occurrences. The passive and directionless narrator of each story lacks any roots or real home. He is a loner whose life is dictated by chance and who passively allows fate to govern his existence. A motley collection of three-legged dogs, mutated puppies, deformed human beings, psychopaths, overgrown slugs, drug addicts, women who practice...
...centrepiece of the album is “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Instead of the Beatles’ metre-shifting, trippy free-association, Amos constructs a history of the Second Amendment. The song is particularly effective when you remember that the last time Tori Amos sang about guns was in her revelatory “Me and a Gun” on her first album Little Earthquakes—a song about her experience of being raped. “She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand...