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...Located on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the port of Essaouira was for many years a well-kept secret of 20th century bohemia. Rock stars Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix have wandered its 300-year-old streets, joining a steady stream of beats and backpackers who, in some cases, were drawn as much by the local kef as by Essaouira's cultural mélange of European, Berber and African influences...
...Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This...
...that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West. Hence, the authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization at war with another...
...armies by drawing them into a labyrinth of mountains to pick off enemy troops one by one. Their weapons have evolved from arrows to rocket-propelled grenades, but their deadly tactics have not. The Wazir humbled the Mughals in the 16th century and the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Last month, it was the Pakistani army's turn. In an April 17 ceremony, Pakistani Lieut. General Safdar Hussain signed a truce with the leaders of the tribal forces, ending a brief, bloody and largely ineffective campaign to root out extremist militants and terrorists hiding among sympathizers in Waziristan...
...former Senator Bob Dole, who co-chaired the memorial effort, and actor Tom Hanks, who spearheaded the fund raising, to dedicate the National World War II Memorial, a project that took 17 years. If only it had been worth the wait. That war remains the great hinge on which 20th century America turned. The men and women who fought it deserve a monument commensurate with what they endured and accomplished. What have they actually got? Purest banality, an inert plaza dressed with off-the-shelf symbols of grief and glory. This is more than a missed opportunity...