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...such pieties set up a false choice. Of course, "by his own merit," Obama is fully qualified to be President. Every time Obama opens his mouth, he makes a mockery of concerns about his basic competence or experience, especially if we take the incumbent as a minimal standard. Beyond that low threshold, "merit" is nearly irrelevant to our concerns. Should we just give them all a PAT (Presidential Aptitude Test...
...with its hundreds of comic crap-takings, has been marketed to Christian groups. The scatological jolt of Aachi & Ssipak fades pretty quickly, as viewers' jaws drop, along with their resistance, at the movie's brain-bursting visual density. Elaborate backgrounds flash by in a nanosecond. A million film references - Basic Instinct, Aliens, half of the Spielberg oeuvre and probably lots of Asian movies I don't know - collide and spawn a zillion more. Director Jo wants his picture to be hip to cultural references high and low (Diaper King to Beautiful: "Stop acting like Paris Hilton") and especially aware...
...list free from incarceration. People who know how aggressively my newspaper, Apple Daily, has criticized Hong Kong and mainland authorities might be surprised to hear me say this, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how the past decade has unfolded. Overall, China has tried to abide by the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, and despite a turbulent seven years under the inept leadership of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the territory is prospering. That is not to say there aren't concerns. Hong Kong suffers greatly from a lack of full democracy. The press censors itself...
...will be so challenging before freshman year—is entirely different from what people see as maturation elsewhere. I felt like a toddler in the presence of friends and relatives who were my age or just a few years older. Since graduating high school, Israeli youngsters have completed basic training, learned to fire a gun, and some even patrolled the streets of the West Bank. Others fought in a war and seen brothers-in-arms die. Meanwhile, I’ve toted books from my dorm to Lamont and back. Learned material, forgotten it, relearned it during reading period...
...known as the Lion of Panjshir was taken out. The suicide bomber had come to Massoud's mountain headquarters posing as a television reporter, and his video camera was wired with explosives. The plotters' awareness that Massoud could be tempted by a broadcast opportunity required only a basic knowledge of his strategy. Like any military man hoping to transform his battlefield exploits into popular leadership, Massoud had to make his case publicly. This is the time-honored creation of the cult of the noble warrior. Julius Caesar, after all, took time out of his conquests to write his self-aggrandizing...