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...military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most of the village. "There was no reason for any of this," mutters Yusman, a grizzled shopkeeper, who was still sifting through rubble last week to retrieve former possessions. "They killed for no reason...
Asnes cites recent uses of force against Palestinians, in particular the demolition by Israeli forces of 30 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp. Asnes mentions that Palestinian snipers were using these locations to shoot and kill Israeli citizens, but she never explains why Israel’s response makes it the oppressor. She avoids this because admitting that Palestinians are attacking Israelis would complicate her story; it would reveal the fallaciousness of her analogy...
...While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard at a Sacramento intersection, road-to-Damascus-style, on the way to a movie shoot, he thought to himself, ‘Son of a bitch, he is right.’” After being called “a political hypocrite and a moral coward” by one of his arch rivals in 1958, Goldwater shoots back, “schoolyard...
Though long a lover of film, Conversation For a Dollar is Fisher’s trial film. Filmed on a tight budget, production was difficult and tedious; Fisher says they “worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process three days of film, worked for two more months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process one more day of film, worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to edit and have a print made,” all in order to nourish a half-hour-long independent film to maturity...
...Harvard] looked good," said Lilly, whose 225 caps and 87 goals scored rank first and third, respectively, on the U.S. National Team's all-time charts. "It's great to play these college teams. It gives them something to shoot for, and it helps us to play these games instead of just playing against each other...