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There was a war going on in my country.
They're focusing on the war; they're focusing on Bush; they're not interested in life.
When I made the sequel to "Elizabeth," here was a story that the writer was telling: A woman who was threatened by Philip II and was going to war, and was going to war, fell in love with Walter Raleigh.
Because she fell in love with Walter Raleigh, she was giving up the reasons she was a queen, and then Walter Raleigh fell in love with her lady in waiting, and she had to decide whether she was a queen going to war or she wanted... Here's the story I was telling: The gods up there, there were two people.
I'd like to begin this song I wrote about ceaseless yearning and never-ending want with a poem of popular Petrarchan paradoxes by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: "I find no peace, and all my war is done; I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice; I fly above the wind, and yet I cannot arise; And naught I have, and all the world I seize upon."
So, for example, in Iraq, the war zone, there are roadside bombs.
And finally, in a rather grizzly way, the Bosnia war crimes; some of the people brought to trial were brought to trial because of the evidence from pollen, which showed that bodies had been buried, exhumed and then reburied somewhere else.
It reshaped the demography of the globe in a way that no war ever has.
News photos brought people face to face with the victims of the war: a little girl burned by napalm, a student killed by the National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio during a protest.
But images don't need to be graphic in order to remind us of the tragedy of war.
I stockpiled weapons for what I thought was an upcoming race war.
The war in Vietnam was raging; the Civil Rights Movement was under way; and pictures had a powerful influence on me.
Their images fueled resistance to the war and to racism.
But I was driven by an inherent sense that a picture that revealed the true face of war would almost by definition be an anti-war photograph.
At the same time, a civil war was taking place in El Salvador, and again, the civilian population was caught up in the conflict.
In the '90s, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia fractured along ethnic fault lines, and civil war broke out between Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia.
In southern Sudan, another civil war saw similar use of starvation as a means of genocide.
Perhaps because a lesson had been learned by the weak response to the war in Bosnia and the failure in Rwanda, when Serbia attacked Kosovo, international action was taken much more decisively.
My work has evolved from being concerned mainly with war to a focus on critical social issues as well.
I went to Congo with MSF, and contributed to a book and an exhibition that focused attention on a forgotten war in which millions of people have died, and exposure to disease without treatment is used as a weapon.
A few minutes later when I looked again and saw the second tower burning, I knew we were at war.
The central commercial district of Kabul, Afghanistan at the end of the civil war, shortly before the city fell to the Taliban.
I'd witnessed immense suffering in the Islamic world from political oppression, civil war, foreign invasions, poverty, famine.
When war with Iraq was imminent, I realized the American troops would be very well covered, so I decided to cover the invasion from inside Baghdad.
Military medicine has become so efficient that the percentage of troops who survive after being wounded is much higher in this war than in any other war in our history.
The signature weapon of the war is the IED, and the signature wound is severe leg damage.
After the war, lots of these songs were lost, but they are a part of our childhood and our history, and we should not forget them."
The world Leymah Gbowee was given was a world at war.
This small group of women, determined to bring an end to the war, and they chose to use their traditions to make a point: Liberian women usually wear lots of jewelry and colorful clothing.
And so there's this war between the farmers and the fishermen about it all, and the net result is that the beaches of Brittany have to be bulldozed of this stuff on a regular basis.
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