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...James, an American now living in Jakarta, must be a fabulous e-mail correspondent. At times heartfelt, at times bitchy, at times full of lies, the messages he pens for his characters positively hum with bon mots. Formerly a critic for The New Yorker and author of a tome called The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe, James spent 1999 living in a bungalow in Bali observing what he calls the "fairy-dust world" that is expatriate life. The offspring of that year is a fun, slightly trashy novel that's quick...
Sheehan-Miles also became a critic of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. And since Bush began talking about another war, Sheehan-Miles has tried to organize opposition to it among fellow Gulf War vets. He says he will reluctantly support a war if it comes, but he is embarrassed that the Administration has been so aggressive in pushing for it. "The Administration seems to be grabbing for a reason," he says. "My biggest concern is that we seem to think...everybody in Iraq will wave a U.S. flag and say thanks for liberating us. But we've encouraged more hostility...
DIED. IVAN ILLICH, 76, social critic and onetime Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals of making people sicker. He left the priesthood after the Vatican called him "politically immoral...
Undergraduate Council members debated the prevalence of homophobia on campus at a tense meeting last night that brought a prominent student critic of homosexuality to the council floor...
...plan to thwart Kim: encouraging massive North Korean defections, in hopes of repeating the kind of exodus that hastened the collapse of East Germany. A refugee crisis seems to be exactly what China doesn't want. Yet Beijing last week allowed U.S. Senator Sam Brownback?a vocal critic of China's practice of sending refugees back home to face imprisonment or even execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia, China and other...