Portraying America as a Midwife to Terror
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sama: The Making of a Terrorist&quot; by a former Washington Post correspondent, Jonathan Randal, is less a biography of Al Qaeda&#39;s mastermind Osama bin Laden than a history of the contemporary jihadi movement, from its ...
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BELLAIRE, Michigan  - Michael Moore thinks he has made an even-handed movie about health care that should appeal to the civic-mindedness and decency of all Americans.
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A new generation of complex, electronic birth simulators allow medical students to practice labor and birth -- especially when there are complications. Meet the mannequins.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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Americaâs freedom of speech is under attack. Mickey Mouse and Private Ryan had better watch out, says Ros Davidson in Los Angeles.
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Fred Thompson&#39;s new role as a  presidential candidate means separating fact from fiction for  those Americans accustomed to seeing him in dramatic TV and  movie roles.
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Her enemies range from al-Qaeda to the military, but whoever is reponsible, the attempt on her life could have a chilling effect on her supporters
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Terrorist bang in the oven The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning US law enforcement agencies to keep a sharp look-out for "a new type of terrorism" in which apparently-pregnant women suddenly go bang due to the fact they aren't really mums-to-be at all, but cold-hearted suicide bombers packing explosives inside a swelling prosthetic belly.â¦
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Susan Jacoby's new book bemoans the state of American culture. Not only are citizens ignorant about essential knowledge, she says, but they also donât think it matters.
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Terrorists lying in wait to attack. Planes falling from the sky. Ships blowing up. The candidates in the race for president are painting some scary scenarios to motivate voters.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Before 1984,  before   The Handmaid's Tale,  before either the movie or  the book by  Stephen King, there was Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here.    Lewis' vision of an American descent into Fascism is as fresh and disturbing today  as it was when it was written in 1935.  Check out the full text  online,  and consider with me the continuing relevance of this 69 year old warning.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: So keen are America's leaders to hear dissent they're videotaping the dissenters. Welcome to a world of total surveillance.
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A box-office surprise, the movie jabs hard at Americans' biases.
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Susan Faludi was visiting the Historical Societyâs exhibition of photographs and artifacts from the World Trade Center attacks and talking about her work âThe Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America,â out next week from Metropolitan Books.
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First, General Motors. Then gun control, followed by George W. Bush. Now rabble-rousing filmmaker Michael Moore has turned his irreverent camera on health care in America.