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...unacceptable endeavors with the winking complicity of an “ignorant” public. Much of the rhetoric of the ongoing “war on terror”—and the policies that accompany it—invoke necessity and fear: what are the Patriot Act and rendition but responses to the shadowy and nebulous threat of Islamic extremism? The global state of affairs continues to demand clandestine activity and the classification of information, but the over-stepping exemplified by this episode only undermines the legitimacy of the CIA as a protective service. Instead, it makes...
...flight featured aerial views of Cambridge, downtown Boston, and the Boston Harbor, including such landmarks as Memorial Hall, MIT, and the Massachusetts State House. Most of the flight went smoothly—until the helicopter began to round Boston’s skyscrapers. “The buildings act like a mountain range,” pilot Philip Greenspun explained as the helicopter circled the John Hancock Tower, “so it’s natural to experience some turbulence.” Since he obtained his pilot’s licence in 2001, Greenspun—a computer...
...there's not - the wheels of international governance grind slow. It takes 190-plus countries a long, long time to agree on anything. So it can sometimes seem, in the torpid heat of Bali, that the calls for action will go unheeded, that we'll never get our act together in time the meet the demands of science, which call for a peak on global carbon emissions to be reached within a decade or so, followed by rapid reductions. That we'll conference ourselves to death...
...same road, wherever he went. This brings us to the question of travel, or the “myth of mobility,” as Fox and Brouws would have it: the alluring prospect of mobility the American Dream promotes is not necessarily upward mobility. The act of traveling does not guarantee something for the better. We romanticize the road, and yet increasingly, it holds only deindustrialized areas and highways that bypass the city. “If Americans now move almost every five years and seem to have no trouble abandoning one community for the next, a homogenized landscape...
...moment certainly seemed historic. This was, quite possibly, the most assertive, surprising and rebellious act in the history of the U.S. intelligence community. The Administration seemed to have lost control of its secrets. Gone were the days when spymasters would come to the White House for morning coffee and whisper the latest intelligence to the President, and the rest of the world would find out decades later, only after numerous Freedom of Information requests had prized the buried treasure from the CIA vault. Now the latest intelligence evaluations were being announced worldwide, nearly in real time. "It's just mind...