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...late Edward Said, the Columbia University Professor who passed away just two weeks ago, once remarked that “the Palestinian is almost always out of place.” Undoubtedly, he must have died a very disappointed man, because he was a peace advocate all of his life. The new Palestinian intelligentsia is still holding fast; it is keeping up hope that the Palestinian flag will be raised again despite the fact that despair and anger are gaining momentum...
...Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence to vegan diets, there's a surprise guest and an apocalyptic climax that sends us out of the theater with a sense that something...
...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...
...Edward M. Likovich...
Franken says he even received a letter acknowledging his apology from Cardinal Edward Egan...