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...photography book about U.S. history produced by Time is a perfect combination: photography is the most democratic of art forms, and Time has always been about explaining America to ourselves. "I contain multitudes," Walt Whitman boasted, and so does this book: a multitude of ideas, people, places, disasters and dreams. "The United States," Whitman wrote, "is essentially the greatest poem." We just combined that poetry with pictures...
...goal is to root out the PKK, and that it wants to avoid clashes with Iraqi forces under the control of the Iraqi Kurdish administration. But U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that Turkish forces, whatever their intention, could clash with Iraqi Kurdish forces, making the conflict difficult to contain. Turkey accuses Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration, led by Massoud Barzani, of sheltering the separatist guerrillas, and some see it as a hostile entity. Retired Turkish general Riza Kucukoglu told TIME: "The PKK is the enemy. But there are also the forces of Barzani, which have created a terrorist haven...
...number of inaugural veterans – both orators and auditors – have proffered advice, including unanimous agreement that my talk must be shorter than Charles William Eliot’s—which went on for an hour and a half. Often inaugural addresses contain lists—of a new president’s specific goals or programs. But lists seem too constraining when I think of what today should mean; they seem a way of limiting rather than unleashing our most ambitious imaginings, our profoundest commitments...
Denis Johnson could not have chosen a more fitting title for his newest novel, “Tree of Smoke.” The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness...
...Portland, Phoenix and Guam. More than 15,000 people will participate, from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to local mayors, police officers and nurses. Professional make-up artists will create oozing "wounds" for volunteer victims, and equipment will be flown in from across the country to detect and contain the "contamination...