Civil War

Iron Chef Japan Grand Battle Week — Filed under: Asia, Television/Film Next week, we'll get to see the best of the best try to best each other. Iron Chef Japan, one of our favorites, is having a civil war on Fine Living Network! It's Grand Battle Week!Five Iron Chef Japan chefs, including Morimoto, will battle it out against each other every night at 11pm Eastern for Grand Battle Week, December 8-12.Fine Living Network is doing an excellent job of feeding our Iron Chef Japan addiction. Our favorite so far was Attack of the Vegetables week when they aired "Cooking Japanese Like Morimoto," an ingenious cover of "Turning... [Tags: addiction, asia television, chefs, civil war, december 8]

An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw In Iraq — I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war. But instead of celebrating our success, my mind was consumed with the unfinished business of our mission: fixing the deeply flawed, ineffective and un-American way the U.S. military conducts interrogations in Iraq. I'm still alarmed about that... [Tags: abu musab, al qaeda, al qaeda in iraq, bosnia, civil war]

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Journalist took fatal job in fear, says coroner — A BBC journalist killed in Somalia would not have gone there had she not feared that turning down the assignment would cost her a new contract, a coroner said yesterday.It was "abundantly clear" that Kate Peyton only agreed to go to the war-torn country, where she was fatally shot within hours of arriving in the capital, Mogadishu, in February 2005, because she believed "her job was on the line", Bury St Edmunds coroner Peter Dean said at the inquest into the 39-year-old's death.He had heard that the Peyton, a producer based at the BBC's Johannesburg bureau, had discussed the renewal... [Tags: bbc journalist, bury st edmunds, capital mogadishu, civil war, coroner]

World Focus: Fiery Aubry seeks to cool Socialist civil war — The shattered French Socialist party needs a charismatic healer, a bridge-builder, a Gallic Obama. They have elected, finally, as their new leader, a tough and brilliant woman, whose sharp tongue and wicked humour infuriates her enemies and terrify her friends.... [Tags: aubry, bridge builder, brilliant woman, civil war, enemies]

Butch, Straight Bears — Fake ones, of course. Introducing the metrognome: The metrognome comes in several forms. There is the archetypal Pacific Northwestern/Western metrognome, of course, attired in flannels and beard year-round. The metrognome was originally identified, in fact, in San Francisco. The southern metrognome has been known to evoke the Civil War. Then there is the seasonal metrognome, who comes out only when the weather grows cold. This varietal wears a beard, yes, but his clothing also becomes considerably more rugged than is his wont, or than is necessary in an urban environment. The metrognome is not to be confused with the Bear,... [Tags: appearance, archetypal, beard, butch, civil war]

The Kurds Arm Themselves — And they do it outside the channels of the Maliki government, which strikes me as a pretty good indicator of Iraq's likeliest future. As Judah Grunstein asks:Given the argument about how strategically significant Iraqi stability is to U.S. interests, do we go back in in the event of a civil war breaking out following our departure?It will be up to Clinton to say no.... [Tags: civil war, grunstein, iraq, judah, kurds]

This Week In Iraq — Juan Cole responds to protests in Iraq over the weekend and the impending SOFA vote:If I were a betting man, I'd say that the security agreement is likely to pass through parliament, even if narrowly-- though if the Sunni Arabs do unanimously vote against or absent themselves, the agreement will lack the legitimacy that would have come from a national consensus across ethno-religious groups.It seems to me that if the Iraqis cannot manage to get a national agreement to get rid of the occupiers, the odds of their coming to any sort of national agreement when the occupiers are gone... [Tags: betting man, civil war, iraq, iraqis, juan cole]

And Still They Spin — From NRO's K-Lo death spiral: There's no civil war on the Right. Ramesh Ponnuru, Time.From the actual article:Republicans are feuding in the wake of the November election. But they are not descending into civil war. That would be too tidy. What is unfolding instead is an overlapping series of Republican civil wars, each with its own theme.... [Tags: civil war, civil wars, death spiral, republicans]

Oregon and Oregon State take the rivalry online with 24-hour LAN tournament — Now THAT’S how you settle a rivalry. It’s all Ducks and Beavers this weekend as far as any nerdly Oregonians are concerned, as the two universities are currently in the closing moments of a 24-hour LAN party where the schools’ respective gaming clubs have squared off in the following titles: Command & Conquer 3 Counter Strike: Source Dawn of War Peggle Team Fortress 2 Unreal Tournament 2004 Warcraft 3 The tournament started at noon Pacific yesterday and ends at noon Pacific today. Peter Ha went to one of these schools, but I can never remember which one. And after... [Tags: amp, civil war, counter strike source, dawn of war, ducks]

French Socialists at war after leadership vote — Chaos and civil war threatened to engulf the main French opposition party yesterday after an acrimonious leadership contest ended in a virtual dead-heat and accusations of vote-rigging and fraud.... [Tags: accusations, chaos, civil war, fraud, french socialists]

The "penalty enhancement" of flag desecration — As a follow up to my general examination of penalty enhancements, let's take a detailed look at flag desecration. I consider this a penalty enhancement, because the laws that have been passed against flags have not been passed against other pieces of cloth. about.com identifies two reasons why flag desecration laws were passed at the state level after the Civil War:In the years immediately following the Civil War, many felt that the trademark value of the American flag was threatened on at least two fronts: by many white Southerners' preference for the Confederate flag, and by business' tendency to use... [Tags: 48 states, american flag, bottling company, burni, civil rights leader]

Bush's "White Flag Of Surrender" — The SOFA deal reveals just how empty the Bush administration's and McCain campaign's claims were that a fixed deadline for withdrawal meant failure. It was all Rovian politics: it was never serious. Obama was right all along - and Bush has now conceded that fact. Their explanation:Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday that the timetable laid out in the final agreement is not what the president wanted originally but said that they could go along with it because of a decline in violence in Iraq in the past year. "The security considerations on the ground have improved so much and the... [Tags: bush administration officials, civil war, decline, gordon johndroe, iraqi security]

Emperial Nation: Learning History Through T-Shirts — The street wear world is often filled with iconography from pop culture, hip-hop and sports. Since the cultural capital is being sucked dry from these reference points, it’s good to see a company dipping into other pots for graphic inspiration. Emperial Nation makes t-shirts using imagery from historic instances of upheaval including the Civil War, French Revolution, Ottoman Empire, The Wild West and The Gangs of New York. Though some of their subjects are well known, others (such as infamous Five Points gang founder Paul Kelly, seen above) are interesting characters that don’t often appear in the history books.... [Tags: civil war, culture hip hop, five points, french revolution, gangs of new york]

More "Vista Capable" emails unsealed, revealing sassy civil war — Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsRemember when Microsoft was hit with a lawsuit over its "Vista Capable" stickers? How about when the judge unsealed emails revealing that after a long battle to promote Vista's graphics-intensive Aero UI, it capitulated and lowered the requirements for the sticker so Intel could keep on selling its graphically-challenged (i.e., WDDM noncompliant) 915 chipset? Yeah, that was awesome. Connoisseurs of corporate drama should appreciate the latest development -- the judge has made public a second batch of emails revealing that MS execs were at odds about that decision. Senior VP Will Poole apparently made the call to... [Tags: 18 nov, aero, amp services, civil war, co president]

Copy of Famed Lincoln Letter Found in Dallas — Texas museum finds letter from Lincoln consoling mother who lost five sons in Civil War.... [Tags: civil war, dallas texas, lincoln, lincoln letter]

Dallas museum finds letter by Lincoln — A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.... [Tags: abraham lincoln, civil war, dallas museum, eloquent letter, lincoln]

Kerry: "Tonight New Dreams Are Born" — Sen. John Kerry released the following statement in response to Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a majority of Americans with his vision and policies, a man who is principally a leader for these times who happens to also be African American; and because of America's stunning ability to move on and transform, to write a new chapter of our history, Barack Obama will be President during the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.... [Tags: 150th anniversary, 50th anniversary, barack obama, civil rights movement, civil war]

Marvel Comics released a teaser image for an unnamed project yesterday that seemed to mix two of their iconic characters together, asking "Who is the Iron Patriot?" We've got the full image, plus our guess on the answer (Spoiler: It's probably not Tony Stark), under the jump. The silhouette - that appears to give Iron Man the chest symbol of Captain America - isn't the first time that Marvel has teamed a mash-up of the two characters; teasing the aftermath of 2006's Civil War (which pit the two characters against each other), the publisher leaked this image as a teaser,... [Tags: aliens, captain america, civil war, dark reign, epilogue]

Author: Obama loss means civil war — Jong: 'Republican mafia' may steal vote; 'Blood will run in the streets.'... [Tags: civil war, mafia, republican, vote]