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...approaching when the U.S. military can deploy a robot that can drive itself around a corner, use senors to detect an enemy fighter on the move and destroy targets instantly with missiles and machine guns - all without human intervention? The Pentagon thinks the day may be imminent, and it wants to ensure that its technology doesn't get ahead of military doctrine. It wants to be certain that there is always a human making decisions regarding the use of lethal force...
...Green of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says Ozawa's "Captain Ahab - like quest" to destroy the LDP has at times led him to adopt an anti-U.S. tone, causing some collateral damage to the U.S.-Japan alliance. But every Japanese leader understands the reality of life. Should he become Prime Minister, Ozawa's determination to hold on to power, says Green, "will lead him to pursue a strong alliance with Washington...
...writer lives long enough, and gets famous enough, then they eventually start to consider what will happen to all the story nuggets, novel fragments and character sketches tucked away in their hard drives and desk drawers. Some destroy their work themselves; others ask family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than...
...similar response will greet the publication of Nabokov's The Original of Laura, should it come out this November as expected. The problem is that Nabokov never wanted the book to be released in the first place; in his will, he'd instructed his son and executor Dmitri to destroy the manuscript. Dmitiri does not seem to be inclined to obey, setting off a debate over which is more important - an author's last wishes or the pull of literary posterity. Will next year's tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, for example - just...
...staring into the abyss," said Dolores Kelly, a local representative of the moderate, nationalist SDLP party at the scene of last night's murder. "All of us have to get together to pull ourselves away from the brink. A tiny handful of people cannot be allowed to destroy so much...