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Today marks the opening of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, the world's largest annual convention, art exhibit and international debating society. For 32 of those years, we have made our pilgrimage to this Riviera redoubt to hobnob with stars and directors, renew old friendships, sample the superb wines and...
But the convention needed to be publicized enough that word of it reached people in the future, so Dorai set up a website to encourage supporters worldwide to leave invitations including the date of the event and MIT’s latitude and longitude.
Unfortunately, all the anticipation proved to be in vain, as the convention received no confirmed guests from the future.
One may doubt the legality of this method, but international law sanctions humanitarian intervention. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which 133 states are party (including the United States), actually obligates states, under the auspices of the Security Council, to prevent and punish...
To take the spotlight off his own (incomprehensible) position on the war, John Kerry built his whole post-convention campaign on bad newspaper headlines about Iraq. The message was: “Whatever I’m offering can’t be worse than this.” Kerry...