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...keeping the pressure up, the U.S. hopes to correct its biggest mistake of all. According to this view, the U.S.'s failure to retaliate massively after past al-Qaeda attacks against U.S. military barracks, battleships and embassies tempted bin Laden to go after ever more outrageous targets--and finally the World Trade Center. Now the U.S. has destroyed al-Qaeda's training camps and undermined bin Laden's capacity to lead. And yet the Sept. 11 hijackings were years in the making--which means bin Laden could have ordered up another, more lethal attack before his world came apart...
...digital printing has affected their work Spiegelman described his process as increasingly virtual. "I have two tables, one of which has my computer on it and the other of which has my 19th century equipment. I find myself moving back and forth all the time now. ... Rather than correct a drawing I'll end up scanning it in and fixing it on screen." Where he once had multiple sketches and drafts, it's now easier to keep re-manipulating and changing the work. "I actually end up writing the comix by making notes in a notebook and then working...
...meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful - if grossly inaccurate - response...
...Harvard’s Walls” is little more than revisionist history. Harvard was founded by white men, governed by white men and funded by white men throughout history. Without white men Harvard would never have existed and would cease to exist. I realize that it is politically correct to beat up on white men in an effort to re-write history, but try doing without us for a decade or so and you wouldn’t have walls on which to hang the portraits of women, who have contributed little to Harvard— and, I suspect...
...Gene Kelly were around today (he died in 1996), he might find this poignant. What is the most popular movie genre in the world today? Not melodrama or comedy or horror or teen pop-star showcases. Correct answer: the musical...