By Matt Leclercq
"Fahrenheit 9/11," a left-sided documentary that bashes the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, wouldn’t find much of an audience in a military town.
Or so they thought.
"This has broken all of our past records," said Nasim Kuenzel, an owner of the Cameo Art House Theatre. "The movie that I thought would make us hardly any money - I never thought it would break all the records."
Both showings sold out Friday at the Cameo, the only theater in Fayetteville to carry (…)
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’Fahrenheit 9/11’ sets record
5 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Take Me Out to the Antiwar Ballgame
5 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Derek Seidman
Dick Cheney was able to score a hot ticket to see the biggest rivalry in baseball when he attended the Yankees-Red Sox game on Wednesday. The vice president even made his way into the locker room before the game to mumble at a few players. It was a proud moment for Yankee coach Joe Torre, who told the press, “It’s great any time a dignitary like that visits. It slaps you with pride.”
Come the seventh inning stretch, it was Cheney’s turn to get slapped.
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Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun : US marine ’beheaded’
4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A purported Iraqi resistance group has published a statement claiming responsibility for beheading a US marine.
The Muntada al-Islam website carried a message from a group calling itself Jaish Ansar al-Sunna - who promised to provide video evidence of Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun’s decapitation. "We would like to inform you that the Marine of Lebanese descent has been killed, and you will soon see the movie with your own eyes," said the statement, signed by Abu Abd Allah al-Hasan bin (…) -
Confused? Shadow of His Old Self? Hardly
4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Robert Fisk Bags beneath his eyes, beard greying, finger-jabbing with anger, Saddam was still the same fox, alert, cynical, defiant, abusive, proud. Yet history must record that the new "independent" government in Baghdad yesterday gave Saddam Hussein an initial trial hearing that was worthy of the brutal old dictator.
He was brought to court in chains and handcuffs. The judge insisted that his own name should be kept secret. The names of the other judges were kept secret. (…) -
Mozilla Feeds on Rival’s Woes
4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Michelle Delio
To get a copy of the Mozilla open source browser, go to http://www.mozilla.org
Hackers have long insisted that steering clear of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is one of the easiest ways to protect computers from many of the security threats that lurk on the Internet.
That suggestion is often greeted with apathy or angry accusations that the geek in question was indulging in Microsoft-bashing — admittedly a not-uncommon activity in hacker circles.
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A Eulogy For Our Marlon Brando
4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Dave Zirin
Marlon Brando’s death at the age of 80 will begin a battle over how the "greatest actor of all time" will be remembered. Some will focus on his latter day isolation, his bizarre behavior, and the many personal tragedies that befell his family.
Others will focus exclusively on his iconic status, and when it comes to Brando performances, icons abound. There was the 1950s motorcycle rebel from "The Wild One" (1954), or the brutal Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (…) -
Iraqi checkpoint, oil pipeline attacked
4 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSeven Iraqi national guards were killed and at least five others wounded in an attack on Saturday on a checkpoint south of Baghdad.
A senior US military official confirmed the death toll after the raid on the post near the town of Mahmudiya.
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U.S. court rules against e-mail privacy
2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts has ruled a company that provides e-mail service has the right to copy and read any message sent to its customers. The Washington Post said the 2-to-1 decision by a panel of the 1st U.S.
Court of Appeals dismayed privacy advocates, who said it kills any notion e-mail enjoys the same protections as telephone conversations or letters. The ruling said because e-mail is stored, however briefly, in computers before it is routed to recipients, it is not (…) -
The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland?
2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Robert Fisk
So in the end, America’s enemies set the date. The handover of "full sovereignty" was secretly brought forward so that the ex-CIA intelligence officer who is now "Prime Minister" of Iraq could avoid another bloody offensive by America’s enemies. What is supposed to be the most important date in Iraq’s modern history was changed like a birthday party because it might rain on Wednesday.
Pitiful is the word that comes to mind. Here we were, handing "full sovereignty" to (…) -
Film shows Cleland’s cause Disabled vet says Iraq war a tragic error
2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy DAVID HO
NEW YORK - Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle.
But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.
"This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I’d never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we’d learned some basic lessons."
Cleland visits (…)