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...ancient Greeks had the same suspicion. The 5th century B.C. playwright Euripides portrayed the oppressed and frustrated women of Thebes, egged on by the wine god Dionysus, abandoning their babies in the cradle and their weaving on the loom to run off into the hills for nights of wild drinking and dancing, further enlivened by the women's enthusiastic dismemberment of any living creatures they came upon. At one point the queen mother, in her wine-addled frenzy, rips apart her own son, the king, leaving the audience with one clear lesson: keep the women indoors and those wine-filled...
...that might ensue if he were ever forced to give up power. Israeli intelligence translated the files, and an index of the dossiers has been obtained by TIME. The papers reveal scandalous material on various underlings in the Fatah leadership, including evidence of adultery by one Fatah chief and wild partying by a middle-aged member of the Palestinian Cabinet. The cache shows the extent of intrigue in the Fatah leadership, with members collecting dirt on potential rivals for power. Another bonus for the Israelis: lists of Palestinian agents living and working in East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli control...
...randy teenagers (Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna) hook up with a restless older woman (Maribel Verdu) for a Mexican joyride in search of the perfect beach. If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is--sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts. But Cuaron's movie, a worldwide hit, also serves as a tour through his convulsive homeland. The gritty life of Mexico occasionally splats on the window of a car whose privileged passengers speed on to their own escape from reality...
...crazed with fear, have been known to gnaw off a trapped limb. In turn, shooting often results in wounding, after which death can be slow and agonizing - surely no kinder than the quick end inflicted by other animals, which is after all the way most prey die in the wild. Even the government-authorized Burns Report published in June 2000 did not find a case for banning hunting on cruelty grounds when compared to other ways of culling foxes...
...stressing the dangers of WMD proliferation for years. "This is our moment of maximum opportunity," says an adviser, "when the U.S. has woken up from its isolationist dream. It's better to take action now before they go back to sleep." Given Bush's image in Europe as a wild Texan, it's interesting that Downing St. thinks itself lucky to catch the wave of his ambition to subdue Saddam...