When you see people walking around covered head to toe with magenta, green, blue, orange and yellow powder, it has to be a special day. Reporter Deepak Singh has more on the Indian festival of colors.
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Gitmo and “The Response”
During the course of the seven years since 9-11, the United States and its elected representatives have made calculated moves to deal with the declared “War on Terror.” Because of the nature of this global war, which is based more in backrooms around the world than on battlefields, it has become increasingly difficult to have concrete ideas about whom and where we are, or should be fighting.
Because of the clandestine nature of the war, the measures to combat it have also taken a more covert form, including… Abu Ghraib… and more recently, Guantanamo Bay. These Prisoner Detentions Camps were set up in an effort to isolate suspected enemy combatants from battle regions and interrogate them so that the war in the Gulf, and on Terror could be mitigated.
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Wake-Up Call: 2008 Virginia Film Festival