Robert Dreyfuss: Our Monsters In Iraq (Tomdispatch.com)
It is time to start waving the bloody shirt. There is no longer any doubt that the men that the United States has installed in power in Iraq are monsters. Not only that, but they are monsters armed, trained and supported by George W. Bush's administration. The very same Bush administration that defends torture of captives in the so-called War on Terrorism is using 150,000 U.S. troops to support a regime in Baghdad for which torture, assassination and other war crimes are routine.
Nina Shapiro: The Stress Test (seattleweekly.com)
Choose all that apply: (a) The WASL was intended to improve schools and pupil performance. (b) It's become an unhealthy obsession among teachers, parents, and students. (c) The WASL inspires alarming anxiety among 9-year-olds. (d) It's actually stultifying public education.
ROGER EBERT: The Ice Harvest (3 stars)
I liked the movie for the quirky way it pursues humor through the drifts of greed, lust, booze, betrayal and spectacularly complicated ways to die. I liked it for Charlie's essential kindness, as when he pauses during a getaway to help a friend who has run out of gas. And for the scene-stealing pathos of Oliver Platt's drunk, who like many drunks in the legal profession achieves a rhetorical grandiosity during the final approach to oblivion. And I liked especially the way Roy, the man in the trunk, keeps on thinking positively, even after Vic puts bullets through both ends of the trunk because he can't remember which end of the trunk Roy's head is at. Maybe it's in the middle.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case', then a FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'Silver Bells'.
NBC opens the night with the movie 'Shrek', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', then a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Reba', followed by another RERUN'Reba', then a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'War At Home', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
UPN has a RERUN'Alias', followed by a RERUN'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'The First 48', 'Family Plots', another 'Family Plots', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Clear & Present Danger', followed by the movie 'The In-Laws', then the movie 'The In-Laws', again.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 1;
[2:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 2;
[3pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 3;
[3:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 5;
[4:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 6;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 7;
[5:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 8;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Shepton 20;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Lichfield;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Spurrey;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 11;
[9pm] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 2 Ellis Family;
[10pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 6;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 11;
[12am] 'Teen Angels' - Ep 2 Ellis Family;
[1am] 'Mile High' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 11;
[3am] 'My Hero' - The Older Man;
[3:40am] 'My Hero' - Puttin' on the Writs;
[4:20am] 'My Hero' - Shock, Horror!;
[5am] 'Black Books' - The Grapes of Wrath;
[5:30am] 'Black Books' - The Blackout;
[6:00am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Robin Williams), and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Malibu's Most Wanted', followed by the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie', and the FRESH'Denis Leary Christmas Special'.
History has 'Commanche Warriors', 'Banned From The Bible', and 'Sodom & Gomorrah'.
IFC -
[6AM] Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955);
[7:45AM] Lulu on the Bridge (1998);
[9:45AM] The Plague (1992);
[11:45AM] IFC November Short Film Collection I (2005);
[1:45PM] Running With The Bulls (2003);
[2:30PM] Hoop Dreams (1994);
[5:30PM] The Red Violin (1998);
[7:45PM] IFC in Theaters(2005);
[8PM] Pollock (2000);
[10:15PM] Twice Upon a Yesterday(1998);
[12AM] Pollock (2000);
[2:15AM] Lianna (1983);
[4:15AM] Twice Upon a Yesterday(1998). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Dante's Peak', followed by the FRESH'Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets'.
Sundance -
[7:15am] The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam;
[8:45am] Paradise Alley;
[10:35am] Tribute: a Rockumentary;
[12pm] Amazon Women On The Moon;
[1:30pm] Coffee With Pina;
[2pm] Iconoclasts: Ford on Koons;
[3pm] Slings & Arrows: Episode 4 - Outrageous Fortune;
[4pm] Departure;
[4:15pm] Borstal Boy;
[6pm] Iconoclasts: Ford on Koons;
[7pm] Reconstruction;
[8:30pm] Coffee With Pina;
[9pm] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Planet of the Men & Women;
[9:30pm] TransGeneration: Episode 1;
[10:30pm] Going All The Way;
[12:15am] Foxy Brown;
[2am] Betty;
[3:40am] Beso Nocturno;
[4am] Seeing Other People;
[5:35am] Amazon Women On The Moon. (ALL TIMES EST)
Director Spike Lee, center, holds a band leader's prop as he talks with members of the 'Black Men of Labor' group before the start of a Second Line parade in New Orleans, La., Saturday Nov. 26, 2005. Lee is filming a documentary on the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by Chuck Burton
Harold Pinter, who won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, will not attend next month's award ceremony in Stockholm for health reasons, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.
The prize will be accepted on behalf of the British playwright and poet by his publisher, Stephen Page, at the Dec. 10 ceremony, the foundation said.
Pinter, who has been treated for cancer in recent years, will still come to Stockholm before the ceremony to deliver a traditional lecture to the Swedish Academy on Dec. 7.
Pinter, 75, looked frail when he spoke to the media after winning the Nobel Prize in October. Later that month, he was awarded the Czech Republic's Franz Kafka literary prize but did not attend because of poor health.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits to sign the next copy of her new book 'Not one more mother's child' after its release near U.S. President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas November 26, 2005. Sheehan became an icon for the peace movement after her son Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq and she held a 26-day vigil near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch during the summer.
Photo by Jim Young
A British comedian who uses a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh alter ego called Borat to poke fun at interviewees has responded to a legal threat from the Kazakh authorities by satirically welcoming the move.
Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays the spoof Kazakh television reporter in his "Da Ali G Show," incurred the wrath of Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry this month after appearing as Borat at the annual MTV Europe Music Awards.
He described shooting dogs for fun and said his wife could not leave Kazakhstan as she was a woman. The Foreign Ministry said his behavior was unacceptable and that Cohen might be serving political orders to tarnish Kazakhstan's reputation.
Responding in character as Borat, Cohen, who is Jewish, said: "I like to state, I have no connection with Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew."
Bosnia's southern town of Mostar unveiled the world's first statue of kung fu legend Bruce Lee on Saturday, paying homage to a childhood hero of all its divided ethnic groups.
The life-size 1.68 meter (5ft 7in) bronze statue is situated in Mostar's central park, close to the former front line of Bosnia's 1992-95 civil war. A decade after the conflict, Mostar's Muslim and Croat inhabitants remain deeply split.
Unveiled by its initiators, Veselin Gatalo and Nino Raspudic of Mostar's Urban Movement, the statue portrays the Chinese-American actor, who died 32 years ago, in a typical defensive fighting position.
Gatalo has said Lee -- a hero to teenagers all over Bosnia in the 1970s and 1980s -- epitomised justice, mastery and honesty, virtues the town had badly missed.
In this handout photo from the International film Festival of Thesaloniki, Francis Ford Coppola looks at fans after he received the award of Golden Alexander during a ceremony of honor of the 46th International film festival of Thessaloniki on Saturday, November 26, 2005.
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera's general manager flew to London on Friday to demand the British government explain a leaked report that resident George W. Bush wanted to bomb the TV station.
The Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Tuesday that a secret British government memo said British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked Bush out of bombing Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar in April last year.
The White House has said the allegation that Bush wanted to bomb Jazeera is "so outlandish" it does not merit a response.
The Daily Mirror quoted one unnamed government official saying Bush's comments may have been a joke, but another unidentified source saying the president appeared to be serious.
Grand Marshall Pamela Anderson, originally from Ladysmith, B.C., waves to the crowd during the Grey Cup parade in Vancouver Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005. The Montreal Alouettes play the Edmonton Eskimos in Vancouver on Sunday in the CFL Grey Cup final.
Photo by Ryan Remiorz
A trio of musicians is turning a new office building into a gigantic harp for a rather unusual grand opening celebration next week.
String Theory, a Los Angeles-based group, plans to attach a dozen 100-foot-long brass wires to the 29-story Cira Centre building next to Philadelphia's main railroad station.
"Every space has its own sonic character," said Luke Rothschild, whose wife, Holly, will play what he installs at the grand opening Thursday evening.
Anti-war protester dressed up as a tortured prisoner during a demonstration near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, November 26, 2005. A group of activists have set up near the ranch to call on Bush to pull the troops out of Iraq immediately.
Photo by Jim Young
The Library of Congress has announced a major effort to digitize the great literary works of the world. To help get the project up and running, Google has donated $3 million.
The World Digital Library project will create a central locale online for "primary materials of different cultures from institutions across the globe." The project, according to James H. Billington, librarian of Congress, will be funded by public and private partnerships. Google is the library's first partner.
The idea for the World Digital Library evolved from a speech Billington gave before the recently established U.S. National Commission for UNESCO last June. During his speech, Billington called for research institutions and libraries to work with private investors to digitize significant works of literature from different cultures.
Red stains are seen running from the left eye of a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. According to Anthony Nguyen, a deacon at the Church, the stains first appeared more than a week ago, but they were wiped away. The stains reappeared a week later. Visitors have been flocking to the church to see what many call 'a miracle.'
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
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