Feb 25 2012
Why the West pussyfoots around Assad By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 February 2012 … Some people are just unlucky. They get born in the wrong place. Like the Syrian city of Homs, where at least 1,770 people have been killed since government troops began their relentless bombardment of the city three weeks ago. Over the …
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Feb 25 2012
Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right By Paul Harris, Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now topping national polls in the Republican presidential nomination race, has embraced the unfashionable, dorky item of sleeveless …
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Feb 24 2012
The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make By Kaleem Aftab, Monday 20 February 2012 … A Finnish sci-fi film about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second World War has turned out to be the unlikely hot ticket of this year’s Berlin …
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Feb 22 2012
Faith in the Back Row By Mark Osler, 02/21/2012 12:22 pm … I am the son of a painter. On summer days, I have often found an excuse to sit near him as he worked. I might pretend to read a book, but I’m really watching him. A better and more compelling story than any …
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Feb 21 2012
‘In Homs we are all wading in blood’ By Jonathan Littell, Tuesday 21 February 2012 15.29 EST … The corpse, already waxy, wrapped in its shroud, a crown of plastic flowers around its head, lies in a corner of the mosque. Kneeling next to the coffin, a boy in tears, his brother, strokes his face …
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Feb 21 2012
Homs, city of torture By Jonathan Littell, Monday 20 February 2012 18.50 EST … In Bashar al-Assad‘s Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of the uprising, the regime has been waging a merciless war …
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Feb 19 2012
House of Stone By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were part of a century-long wave of migration that occurred as the Ottoman Empire crumbled, then …
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