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...hype as M.I.A. has received without facing a little backlash from the notoriously fickle world of music snobs. People bitch about M.I.A.’s authenticity (“She went to art school!”), political associations (“Her dad’s a terrorist!”), and fashion sense (“Who was the wardrobe designer for the ‘Galang’ video, Crockett or Tubbs?”). But very few can find a bottle of Haterade big enough to wash away their appreciation of the music...
Nicaraguan historian and former Sandinista leader Dora María Téllez declined a visiting professorship this spring at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) after the U.S. State Department denied her a visa for her alleged role in “terrorist activities...
...While the U.S. brands Hizballah a terrorist organization, Tuesday's turnout signaled the depth of its roots in the Lebanese mainstream. The Iran-backed Islamist organization, which maintains a militia that would likely be more than a match for the Lebanese national army in the event of a showdown, currently holds more seats than any other single party in Lebanon's parliament. The party is the major voice in the Shiite community, which today may be around 40 percent of Lebanon's population...
...added that “the Palestinians must take urgent and effective steps to shut down the terrorist groups that have taken Palestinian society hostage...
...into what Irish historian Eamon Phoenix calls its "greatest crisis since the Irish Civil War in 1922." Party leaders were already under pressure to distance themselves from the I.R.A. after a $50 million robbery at a Belfast bank in December, which the British and Irish governments blamed on the terrorist organization. Dublin, which usually plays "good cop" to London's "bad cop" in negotiations with Sinn Fein, reacted with fury. The bank raid also raised questions about republican intentions toward the peace process, which, though stalled, is still supported by Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. "People don't understand...