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Maher does well not only to attack Christianity; he also digs his claws into Judaism and Islam. An interview with Rabbi Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist who supports the Iranian president’s recent denial of the Holocaust, reveals the darkest entrails of religious hypocrisy. While roaming the underground tunnels of Amsterdam, Maher interviews Muslim British rapper Aki Nawaz of the band Propagandhi, whose controversial lyrics glorify terrorism. Incidentally, Nawaz, whose livelihood literally depends on freedom of speech, has no qualms about the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses...
...financial health. On Black Monday in 1987, stock markets around the world crashed as if by coordination. Plausibly, the U.S. crisis has so far been, in medical terms, “subacute,” but credible signs of exacerbation might soon depress the mood of even the darkest pessimists. September 29, 2008 is already featured in databases listing the most significant days in the stock market’s history...
...tests - a phenomenon about which we have little concrete understanding, onto which contemporary social anxieties (and dreams) can readily be projected. As a result we find (often polarized) utopian and dystopian visions being articulated." Humanity will certainly survive the LHC's experiment, Williams added, but so too will its darkest fears about its own destructive potential, and hope for its future...
...also the best time of year to drop by. Not only is winter the cheapest time to get to this expensive Nordic nation, 101, the postal code and nickname of the capital city's oldest neighborhood, is at its best in its darkest and coldest moments, when its back alleys, mom-and-pop fishmongers and bite-size pubs tap into the charisma of one of Europe's most storied neighborhoods. Indeed, 101 has been the muse for a generation of artists that love to hate Iceland's six-month winters - among them director Baltasar Kormákur, whose film...
That spirituality can coexist with the darkest of impulses is a sad but simple fact of humanity. The best defense, Lifton wrote, is "equally pervasive empathy, fellow feeling, toward all other human beings." To the victims of Karadzic's cruelty, though, that may seem like more than such a man deserves...