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DIED. EDWARD SAID, 67, Columbia University literary critic and the most prominent advocate for Palestinian independence in the U.S.; of leukemia; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and U.S. Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he repudiated terrorism generally, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. The author of the influential study Orientalism, which argued that Westerners distorted and demeaned Middle Eastern culture by stereotyping, Said lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker...
...charge that the Bush Administration leaked the identity of one of its intelligence operatives has such grave implications that it is impossible to pinpoint the single most disturbing. Is it that the White House may have intimidated a critic by endangering the life of a member of his family? Is it that, if the allegations are true, the administration jeopardized our national security by exposing a network of agents responsible for disrupting the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)? Or is that the White House is now trying to prevent a full and credible effort...
...Said] is a critic, not a political leader. He wants to be outside politics so he openly criticizes Yasser Arafat,” Waters said. “He found it essential to keep the distance from the movement...
Hehir, who has been a vocal critic of the Catholic Church’s attitude toward priests accused of sexual abuse, arrives at a time when the church is seeking closure to the revelations...
George A. Plimpton ’48, the literary critic and legendary prankster whose career as a humorist began at the Harvard Lampoon, died Thursday at his Manhattan apartment...