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It's tempting to think there are two gay Americas, one frightened and one fabulous, a merely gay America and a fully Queer America. An America where the gay bars darken their windows to hide ashamed patrons, and an America where straight people stand in line to get into gay...
Lying on a beaten-up hospital bed with two bullets in his right leg, Amar Ali Najim has plenty to complain about. A few hours earlier, the Baghdad policeman had responded to reports that a gang of thieves was menacing a market. Arriving on the scene, Najim and his colleagues...
The news out of Iraq in recent months has been mostly dreary. Since the beginning of August, three major terrorist attacks have killed at least 115 people. Strikes on American troops continue, and the job of rebuilding the country seems overwhelming at times. Yet as the scorching temperatures of summer...
In similar circumstances, what would Clinton do? Clinton was the genius political escape artist of the American presidency--and a good part of his success is attributable to the little things: great political antennae, an exquisite sense of how the political calendar works (when to move, when to delay), intellectual...
Moreover, China's underdeveloped legal system makes a policeman's job tougher, encouraging him to make up the rules as he goes?or do nothing at all. Wang, the professor at Public Security University, travels around China lecturing cops on crowd-control techniques, including what to do when facing demonstrators...