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...real close reader of Deborah Solomon because I find the New York Times Magazine so dull. There are times when I’ve found it’s just shock value for her. It’s like high concept entertainment. In some ways, the most neutral questions will prompt the most honest answers. I don’t think it’s good journalism to get people to say something because they feel awkward, make a gaffe, and that becomes news...
...Rumsfeld has also asked General John Abizaid, head of military operations in the Middle East, to extend his term for another year, Pentagon sources tell TIME, and Abizaid agreed. An Arabic speaker, Abizaid popularized the idea that the war on terrorism should be known as the Long War, a concept the Bush Administration has adopted. Long and costly would be more apt. Bush last week asked Congress for an additional $72.4 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the tab to nearly $400 billion...
...clash of civilizations" or of a noble Europe bearing the burden of free speech against rapacious Muslims who just don’t get it. I also vigorously object to Ms. Ingram’s casual use of the phrase "national integration," a morally bankrupt and discredited concept that has been used by European extremists over the past century to advance agendas of unprecedented violence. She completely fails to recognize that, today, radicalism and extremism are global and human problems, not Muslim ones...
Other students asked the ambassador about the election of Hamas in Palestine, the concept of democracy in Saudi Arabia, and the movie “Syriana...
Imagine a college course where you could just hang out—and get credit. Cosmic Connections aside, the concept seems unlikely. Unless of course you’re enrolled in VES 80: Loitering. According to the official description of the class, posted online, “You will hang out in the vicinity of culture and make things in response to it.” Vague as it appears, this one sentence course description attracted over fifty students to its first meeting. This large group of wanna-be loiterers had to be whittled down to a mere twelve through...