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...witch-hunt is required to make scoundrels of the student heroes, then a campaign of glorification is required to make heroes of the army scoundrels. Over and over, Chinese television replays shots of soldiers cleaning the streets and distributing food supplies. China's leaders troop through the hospitals visiting wounded soldiers. "You have done an excellent job," an official tells troops in Beijing...
...shack, they found a squat iron kettle whose contents suggested that more than just a band of ruthless killers had been at work. Inside the pot, resting in dried blood, were a charred human brain and a roasted turtle. Other containers held a witch's brew of human hair, a goat's head and chicken parts. After arresting and questioning four suspects, the Mexican police pieced together a horrific tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation...
...produce is peppered with pesticides, the boxes and cans packed with treacherous additives, the meat stuffed with powerful drugs, the chickens spattered with bacteria, and the fish steeped in chemical wastes. Even the cool, clear water that comes out of every kitchen tap is suspected of being a witch's brew laced with lead, microorganisms and industrial pollutants. To many people, eating and drinking have become death-defying feats. No wonder sales of "organic" foods and bottled waters have surged to new heights...
...with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends as "an account of the witch-hunts leading up to the McCarthy...
...LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (PBS, Jan. 14, 8 p.m. on most stations). Wonderworks presents the first hour of a three-part mini-series based on the classic C.S. Lewis story of four children who discover a magical kingdom...