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...Foreign language film. Paradise Now, an acclaimed study of a Gaza suicide bomber, and the first film to be nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite - before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you?ll be hearing this: "And the winner is? from the Terrorist?I mean Palestinian Authority?" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World...
...areas just as vulnerable to attack as shipping, the Administration has consistently backed away from--and sometimes simply blocked--federal regulation. A terrorist attack on a chemical facility could kill thousands of people and endanger up to a million, federal experts say, so in mid-2002, the White House assigned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to secure the nation's chemical plants. The EPA and the fledgling White House Office of Homeland Security spent months developing a legislative package requiring the chemical industry to beef up security. In March 2003 a dozen senior Administration officials met in the Old Executive...
...Arab state. Claims by, among others, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 (D-N.Y.) that the deal would constitute a threat to national security, suggesting it would be akin to blessing an Islamo-terrorist “infiltration” of our ports, are both sensationalist and misleading. Attempts to halt its progress are misguided. The deal, which was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in mid-January, would change next to nothing beyond the letterhead of the shipping manifests...
...state of Israel didn't have enough to confront, it now faces having to deal with the terrorist organization Hamas. The group has been condemned for its terrorist acts by the U.S., Canada and the European Union, and it remains to be seen if terrorists can become legislators. A government controlled by Hamas, with its oft-stated aim of eliminating the state of Israel, does not bode well for the peace process. Bert Raphael Chairman, Canadian Lawyers and Jurists for World Jewry Toronto...
...difficult to decipher where the technical merits of each side?s argument end and the raw political motives begin. The Bush Administration considers Chavez a threat to stability in the region, while Chavez is a loudly outspoken U.S. critic who calls Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" and says that the U.S. is poised to either assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil reserves...