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The WTC was targeted for destruction because of what it represented—capitalism, free trade, material wealth, greed, power and even the secular, democratic way of life. The attacks represented a clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The...
In one instance, Powell took the lead in toughening up the presentation. He thought that the International Atomic Energy Agency had been too quick to endorse Iraq's claims that imported aluminum tubes were designed for rockets, not for use in nuclear-processing plants. Powell personally grilled CIA experts on...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his...
Understandably the U.S. has much to fear from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, but the fear is reaching paranoid levels. Though actions of the Chinese government may not always be perceived as friendly, it is quite a leap to suggest that a regime which bullies its denizens is poised...
I love my country and much of my work is about the struggle to realize the ideas of equality set out in the Declaration of Independence and the post-Civil War amendments to our Constitution. But nothing since President Nixon’s sudden expansion of the Vietnam War into...