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...anti-Semitic to ask why the Palestinians should pay the price for the ghastly crime of the Germans?” Matory wrote in a Crimson opinion piece last September. “Why were the property rights of the German perpetrators sacrosanct and those of the guiltless Palestinians adjudged an acceptable casualty...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matory To Join Duke Faculty | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

...first few pages of what is the best novel written since I've been old enough to read. It's a circular 1,079-page book about the impossibility of communication that is so wondrously complex that when I got to meet with its editor, Michael Pietsch, and ask him a basic question about the plot, he couldn't even tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: David Foster Wallace 1962-2008 | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...here," I said at 2 a.m., and we immediately moved our 4-year-old to a cot inside the closet. Mercifully, she slept almost the entire night, waking up just once to ask what the "boom-booms" were. The wind - like the continuous blast of a train whistle, interrupted by the occasional roar of a jet engine - didn't seem to bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding Out Ike: What it Really Felt Like | 9/13/2008 | See Source »

...talked to that guy for a total of 12 minutes, it was probably the easiest feature I ever wrote. Of anyone I ever interviewed, Bono loved the process the most - he actually laid down on a couch like he was in a psychiatrist's office and wanted me to ask questions where he could analyze his own iconography. The person who's consistently the best interview is Marilyn Manson. He's almost more intellectually designed to be an interview subject than a musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Klosterman | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

First, we need to create opportunities to serve. I'll ask more young people to serve in uniform and expand the size of our military. And I'll increase AmeriCorps--our network of local, state and national service programs--from 75,000 slots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: A Call to Service | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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