The Commune's savage suppression in May 1871 by France's fledgling Third Republic buttressed the international socialist movement's contention that bourgeois democracies were as hostile to workers' ...rights as any monarch. Because the Commune enabled activists at the local level to assert considerable political and social authority, it remains an icon to contemporary free-form movements like Occupy Wall Street that seek to avoid hierarchies and let power flow from the grass roots.
...1 with the beard" was none other than the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The heart of Bird's narrative concerns Ames's unfolding relationship with Ali Hassan Salameh, chief of the PLO's Force ...17 intelligence unit and a top operations officer for Arafat.
The bishops of Pennsylvania, led by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, overstepped sensible Catholic teaching in their white paper: 'Nutrition and Hydration: Moral Considerations.' Their extreme ...anti-euthanasia stance is examined in light of other episcopal and theological thinking on the issue.
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But Don Lessem, who once upon a time was a correspondent for the Telegram & Gazette and later a reporter for Worcester Magazine, doesn't need therapy and support groups, thank you very much. For the ...truth is that dinosaurs - the object of obsession in question - have been very, very good to Dino. Thanks to T. rex, Dsungarepteris and Giganotosauras, Lessem, 45, has met with such modern day heavyweights as author Michael Crichton and film director Steven Spielberg, and has been the dinosaur consultant to the movies "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park." And as the Newton-based president of Dinosaur Productions, he's the creator and producer of a touring exhibit titled "The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park/The Lost World: The Life and Death of Dinosaurs" that's booked solid at venues around the country through 2000. Lessem figures that since the next "Jurassic Park" movie comes out in 2000, the exhibit will pick up at least two more years worth of bookings beyond that.
Writing in the present tense, she takes us back to January, 23, 2002, when she wakes with her husband sweetly curled around her pregnant body. In her telling, Daniel Pearl comes alive as "charmingly ...goofy," with his propensity towards list-making and scattering his possessions wherever he lands. She writes of their shared idealism and their disparate bloodlines - Daniel's Iraqi Jewish mother and Israeli-born father, her own Dutch-Jewish father and Cuban-black- Hispanic-Chinese mother - the sum of which makes their son Adam genuinely a citizen of the world. On their last scheduled day in Karachi, Daniel has "meetings stacked up like planes over a crowded airport." His last appointment, at 7 p.m., is with Sheikh Gilani, a radical Muslim cleric whom he believes might have a connection to Robert Reid, the thwarted shoe bomber. Ms. Pearl conveys the intricate planning that goes into such a meeting, the "fixers" and go-betweens and drivers to whom a reporter must entrust his life in order to get an interview or story. In his recently published book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" (Melville House), French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy points out disturbing connections between Pakistan's intelligence unit, ISI, Al Qaeda, and Omar Sheikh, the man convicted of arranging Pearl's murder - links that Ms. Pearl also adumbrates. She understands, however, that Danny Pearl was murdered because he was Jewish and American, because journalists are frequently suspected of espionage, and as a lesson both to America and to Musharraf for collaborating with America.
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New York Times Book Review,
07/2008
Book Review
Donald G. McNeil Jr. reviews the "The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge," a biography of Joe Slowinski by Jamie James.
