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...Journal's editorial page, long an avatar of market Messianism, was joined by the neoconservative Weekly Standard magazine, which announced the "implosion" of the U.N. on its cover, and the syndicated columnist George Will, who wrote, "The United Nations is not a good idea badly implemented, it is a bad idea." These sentiments were not expressed in isolation; the desire to "break" the U.N. was whispered in some of the lustier precincts of the Bush Administration as well. Indeed, the anti-U.N. campaign seems just the beginning of a grander conservative project: the scrapping of the old world order...
...Journal's editorial page, long an avatar of market Messianism, was joined by the neoconservative Weekly Standard magazine, which announced the "implosion" of the U.N. on its cover, and the syndicated columnist George Will, who wrote, "The United Nations is not a good idea badly implemented, it is a bad idea." These sentiments were not expressed in isolation; the desire to "break" the U.N. was whispered in some of the lustier precincts of the Bush Administration as well. Indeed, the anti-U.N. campaign seems just the beginning of a grander conservative project: the scrapping of the old world order...
Panelists included MTV talk-show host Ananda Lewis, music video director Little X, President of Avatar Records Larry Robinson and Boston Globe writer Vanessa Jones...
...those things that can't be put into words; that the roiling impulses that rule are lives are either ineffable or just F---able. But the history of theater is an honor roll of articulate talk; the Greeks and Shakespeare, Corneille and Shaw thought so, and Stoppard is their avatar. Not talk for talk's sake - though why not, when he's so good at it? - but to clarify thorny ideas and to reveal thickety feelings...
...enter politics it is with visions of a teenaged Bill Clinton and his Rolodex of potentially useful contacts dancing in our heads. Our crusades are personal and concrete; we know the dangers of idealism, and how little Don Quixote’s pasteboard visor offers. Our early modern literary avatar is not Cervantes’ daydreaming knight but Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, who, demon-beguiled, weighs profit against loss and trades his soul for fame and money...