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  Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | A year of living dangerously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The contest between Bush and Bin Laden over the past year, in some of its superficial aspects, brings to mind that comical sketch of the vicious cat plotting to devour a cunning mouse that manages to outwit the cat until it is inevitably caught and gobbled up.
After 10 years of revolution that changed the face of France, Europe and the world, he plunged his nation into a series of military adventures that not only ended in ignominious defeat but into the reversal of the French Revolution and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.
Developments over the previous year have demonstrated that Washington is not so much concerned with eliminating the sources of international terrorism as it is with using terrorism to tighten its grip over the entire world and to eliminate all opposition to its policies.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/621/op112.htm   (1587 words)

  
  Mexico 1997, a Year of Living Dangerously
There is a clear orientation towards the PRD amongst the working class, even some sections of the activists who were previously a bit ahead of the class and sectarian to the party are changing their attitude.
The main thing to understand is that unless there is a revolutionary movement of the working class in the cities, using the traditional methods of the labour movement (general strike, organisation of delegate's committees and insurrection) there is no way forward for the demands of the peasants.
The Army is taking control of the police forces and some states live in a virtual non-declared state of siege, with a high presence of the Army in the streets, check points,...
www.marxist.com /mexico-1997-living-dangerously150197.htm   (2070 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Year of Living Dangerously is a novel by Christopher Koch, which was made into a film in 1982, directed by Peter Weir and written by Koch, Weir, and David Williamson.
The story is a complicated psychological plot set in Indonesia during the overthrow of the rule of President Sukarno.
The title The Year of Living Dangerously is a quote which refers to a famous Italian phrase used by Sukarno; vivere pericoloso, which was supposed to mean "living dangerously".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously   (699 words)

  
 A year of living dangerously abroad and at home - The Boston Globe
But it also was a year when the physical dangers of reporting became clear, when the world understood how dangerous it is...
But it also was a year when the physical dangers of reporting became clear, when the world understood how dangerous it is for journalists covering war.
This was, after all, a banner year of egos buffed and bruised, as the networks played musical chairs with their coveted anchor slots.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2006/12/31/a_year_of_living_dangerously_abroad_and_at_home   (782 words)

  
 Year of living dangerously - World - smh.com.au
Gold Coast beauty therapy student Schapelle Corby's Bali trial was the soap opera of the year, with a plot and cast beyond the genius of the nation's television industry to concoct, with sister Mercedes, mother Rosleigh Rose and lawyer Paris Hotman ("For this case I am temporarily clean") Hutapea.
This was the year of bills to sell Telstra, slash welfare, cut the courts out of counter-terrorism, pluck sedition from the grave, and take industrial relations back to the 1890s.
In various corners of the world, this has been declared the year of Physics, of Languages, of the Volunteer, the Rooster (China) and the Veteran; the year of Microcredit, of Einstein and of Hans Christian Andersen.
www.smh.com.au /news/world/year-of-living-dangerously/2005/12/19/1134840772127.html   (3554 words)

  
 Michael Ignatieff: The Year of Living Dangerously
A year ago, I was a reluctant yet convinced supporter of the war in Iraq.
A year later, the weapons of mass destruction haven't turned up, Iraqis are being blown up on their way to the mosque, democracy is postponed till next year and my friends are all asking me if I have second thoughts.
Michael Ignatieff, a contributing writer for the magazine, is director of the Carr Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2004/ignatieff_year_dangerously_nyt_031404.htm   (2200 words)

  
 "The Year of Living Dangerously" by Carolyn A. Durham
Indeed, THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is a profoundly self-reflexive film, in which the notion of the visual functions centrally as both image and theme.
Throughout THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, Weir uses his camera technique, and an ideology of the image particular to his political conception of film, to question, to undermine, and ultimately to deny the Western ideal of objectivity so aptly incarnated in journalism.
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is a male-bonding film — all the Western journalists are men — in which women, both Western and Eastern, figure as the sexual objects of male regard.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC30folder/YearLiveDangerously.html   (3084 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / A year of living dangerously
The misbegotten war revealed itself explosively, especially at year's end, but it had already turned the unfolding presidential election into the meaning by which, for many, hope itself was measured.
The expansive sense of historic open-endedness, so palpable across all political divides a mere five years ago, as the year 2000 was dawning, has been replaced by a national claustrophobia, with the growing suspicion that we are hedged in by walls of our own creation.
The point of the New Year, traditionally, is to leave such brooding behind, but this broadly felt emotional weight is a warning that great things are at stake in America's argument with itself.
www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/28/2004_a_year_of_living_suspiciously?mode=PF   (802 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir 1982
Ambitious, gripping, and stylish, The Year of Living Dangerously falters in its attempts to be a thriller, romance, and political tract, and to encompass director Peter Weir's penchant for mysticism.
Year adopts an Indonesian art form despite the fact that the journalists within the diegesis live isolated from the country and fail to understand it politically or culturally.
The Year of Living Dangerously ist sein größtes.
www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/yearliving/year.html   (6541 words)

  
 2005: the year of living dangerously » 7DAYS General and Local News, Dubai, Abu Dhabi UAE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
From deadly earthquakes to devastating hurricanes and a string of horrific air disasters, this year has not been a very lucky time for a lot of people around the world.
A 31 year old woman later admits that she may have started the blaze by accident, police said.
Almost 54,000 families were as of November still living in hotels and motels in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi.
www.7days.ae /2005/12/28/2005-the-year-of-living-dangerously.html   (793 words)

  
 A year of living dangerously
It is again the time of the year when we look back at the events and happenings of the year just gone by and get ready to welcome the New Year.
The year brought no good news for overall human rights conditions in the country, especially for the women and children, who had no respite during the year just ended.
The year ended with one of the most horrific natural disasters in recorded history: a 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean that spawned devastating tsunamis that killed at least 80,000 people from Thailand to Somalia.
www.fact.com.pk /archives/janur/feng/ydan.htm   (706 words)

  
 BBC News | SPECIAL REPORT | Indonesia '98: A year of living dangerously
The economy disintegrated; people power was born; and the man who had ruled over them for more than 30 years finally walked off the political stage.
It was the collapse of Indonesia's currency at the beginning of the year that suggested President Suharto might be faltering.
Political commentator, Wimar Witoelar is not alone in feeling that he has lived through a historic period, from which hard lessons have had to be learned.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/indonesia/special_report/244390.stm   (978 words)

  
 Geotimes — December 2005 — A Year of Living Dangerously
For two years running, a devastating earthquake has occurred on Dec. 26: the 2003 Iranian earthquake that killed 30,000 people in the ancient city of Bam, and the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and resulting tsunami that together killed ten times that number.
As we head into the new year, a centennial scenario is worth keeping in mind: that of the 1906 earthquake that left 3,000 dead in San Francisco and more than half the city’s population homeless.
Ten years from now, it would be awfully nice to review the catastrophes that did not occur rather than simply the ones that did.
www.geotimes.org /dec05/feature_naturalhazards.html   (1201 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
IMDb > The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
15 years after its release, I finally get to see what to my knowledge is the only english-speaking film that tells the story of Indonesia circa the 1965 revolution.
A very young Gibson is convincing as the inexperienced but ambitious reported determined to make his mark in telling the story of Sukarno's last moments in power.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0086617   (607 words)

  
 Year of living dangerously - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Working on The Book of Revelation was a feat in itself and he suspects it was no accident that he broke his ankle the week before he was about to start filming the abuse scenes in the so-called "white room".
Interestingly, after his year of living dangerously, one of the roles Long did accept was that of another abused, haunted man - Christian in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Festen, adapted from the film of the same name.
He's increasingly drawn to working on documentaries with his brother, who lives in Paris, and with his partner Maza, who is Aboriginal and gives him access to to the issues of indigenous Australia.
www.theage.com.au /news/film/year-of-living-dangerously/2006/08/24/1156012673328.html   (2172 words)

  
 A Year of Living Dangerously
One year ago today, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh had his throat ritually slit by Mohamed Bouyeri, a Muslim born in Holland who spoke fluent Dutch.
The same is not true for a Muslim who lives as an immigrant in a suburb of Amsterdam or Paris.
Liberal tolerance was interpreted as respect not for the rights of individuals, but of groups, some of whom were themselves intolerant (by, for example, dictating whom their daughters could befriend or marry).
catholiceducation.org /articles/politics/pg0147.html   (1689 words)

  
 Another Year of Living Dangerously? - Council on Foreign Relations
Some 70,000 Acehnese have moved north and now live in makeshift refugee shelters, their migration prompted by a combination of loyalty to gam, worry that disobedience could bring retribution, and fear of Indonesian security forces.
The country was on edge, and Wahid's defense minister warned of the dangers of a military coup.
There were 113 incidents in its waters in 1999 compared to 60 the year before, and between January and March of 2001 alone, pirates attacked ships in Indonesian waters 29 times and on nine occasions in the Malacca Strait.
www.cfr.org /publication/5202/another_year_of_living_dangerously.html   (7396 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year would perhaps be best remembered for Linda Hunt’s brilliant and show stealing portrayal of Billy Kwan, for which she won a handful of awards, including the Oscar.
The Year of Living Dangerously has been said to be an Australian film catering specifically for the U.S. and international market.
The Year of Living Dangerously is one of those milestone films that set a good example for the rest to emulate.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/1998/yearof.htm   (2536 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously
2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously – for the Bush administration and for the rest of us.
You could almost offer a guarantee that no major problem is likely to arise this year, domestic or foreign, that they will not be quite incapable of handling reasonably, efficiently, or thoughtfully – to hell with compassionately (for anyone who still remembers that museum-piece label, "compassionate conservative," from the Bush version of the Neolithic era).
So here are just four of the most expectable crisis areas of 2006 as well as three wild cards that may remain in the administration's hand and that could chase all of us through this year – adding up, in one way or the other, to the political tsunami of 2006.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/january2006/130106dangerously.htm   (2873 words)

  
 Q&A: The Year of Living Dangerously - NW-0102WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
At the start of this year, 110 journalists were still being held in prisons throughout the world.
The year 2001 was a very difficult and a very bad year for journalists all over the world.
We will never say to a journalist not to go on the ground because of danger, because we think the main job of a journalist is to go on the ground and to report the facts.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3067326/site/newsweek   (1647 words)

  
 TomDispatch - Tomgram: The Year of Living Dangerously
You could almost offer a guarantee that no major problem is likely to arise this year, domestic or foreign, that they will not be quite incapable of handling reasonably, efficiently, or thoughtfully -- to hell with compassionately (for anyone who still remembers that museum-piece label, "compassionate conservative," from the Bush version of the Neolithic era).
Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War.
An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Tom is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War era.
www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=48892   (3115 words)

  
 2006: A Year of Living Dangerously by Eric Margolis
The Mideast will continue a dangerous mess, with intensification of efforts by anti-American groups (`terrorists’ in Washington-talk) to overthrow the medieval and military rulers that make the region a hallmark of terrible, repressive governments and foreign exploitation.
As this writer predicted five years ago in his book `War at the Top of the World,’ the advent of South Korea, China and India as major oil importers is producing serious new tensions and a struggle for mastery of Central Asia’s oil and gas.
So it seems that 2006 will be a year of rising international political and economic tensions, played against the backdrop of a surging China and a weakening United States.
www.lewrockwell.com /margolis/margolis10.html   (1078 words)

  
 2005: P2P'S Year of Living Dangerously
And it's been three years in which the power of P2P has irrevocably altered the course of digital media and compelled the embrace of downloads as a primary distribution avenue.
Last year, 2004, was a year in which we saw many, many bad policy proposals launched from Washington in the war against P2P.
The 9th Circuit decision was grounded squarely in the 20 year old Betamax Doctrine, under which the providers of a new technology cannot be found liable for secondary copyright infringement so long as that technology is capable of substantial non-infringing uses.
www.dcia.info /MSNY2005/Corwin.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Variety.com - The year of living dangerously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Weinstein Co. is a year old, and the biggest news about the hyperactive brothers so far hasn't been about what they've done, but what they haven't.
After loudly splitting from Disney and their Miramax label a year ago and raising more than a billion dollars in financing, they've been relatively quiet.
"Year one was about building infrastructure and laying the groundwork to build an international distribution system," Harvey Weinstein says.
www.variety.com /article/VR1117951025.html?categoryid=13&cs=1   (969 words)

  
 WAN - 2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
One hundred and five journalists were killed in 2006, the deadliest year on record, according to the half-year review of press freedom by the World Association of Newspapers.
Increasing violence and insecurity in Iraq has once again made the country the most dangerous environment in the world for media practitioners, and the war between Lebanon and Israel cost the lives of two media employees in July of this year.
In Algeria, Morocco and Egypt, arguably the most tolerant environments for journalists in the region, the governments rely on criminal defamation laws as a means to exert pressure and control on the media.
www.wan-press.org /article12592.html   (627 words)

  
 'Year of Living Dangerously' airs in Indonesia. 28/09/2004. ABC News Online
The Oscar-winning movie The Year of Living Dangerously, set during the emergence of Indonesia's Suharto and banned by the former dictator, has been broadcast for what is believed to be the first time, in a sign the country may be coming to terms with its brutal past.
But Indonesian viewers watching Sunday's broadcast of The Year of Living Dangerously were spared one of the film's most graphic scenes, a gunpoint massacre during the murderous chaos surrounding Suharto's 1965-1966 rise to power.
Despite Suharto's fall from power in 1998, the truth behind his rise to the top job remains a mystery and viewers would have learned little from watching The Year of Living Dangerously, much of which is a love story between Mr Hamilton and a British embassy officer played by Sigourney Weaver.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200409/s1208647.htm   (562 words)

  
 The Year of Living Dangerously by Tom Engelhardt
In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Security Agency, we have already embarked on what looks distinctly like a constitutional crisis (which may not come to a full boil until 2007).
Unlike Fitzgerald, however, the career prosecutors in the Abramoff case are overseen by a notorious Bush recess appointee, Alice Fisher.
Parts of it have been involved in a bitter, shadowy war with the administration for years now.
www.lewrockwell.com /engelhardt/engelhardt153.html   (2878 words)

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