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...Islamic blitz co-opted tactics typically employed by the radical left. During the week of October 22-25, Horowitz and his Terrorism Awareness Project staged protests, solicited speakers, and organized sit-ins at 114 college campuses across the country. By likening the contemporary Muslim world to World War II-era fascist Europe, Islamo-Fascism Awareness week sought to equate the sort of negotiation and compromise on which Annapolis must be built with the accommodation of genocidists, a strategy that renders long-term peace all but unachievable.Although Harvard did not participate directly in Horowitz’s project—though...
...mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze statue of Wally Lewis - Queensland's greatest rugby league player - whose finest moments occurred at a pre-renovated version of this stadium. Rudd is no footballer. But on this night, to those who've rejoiced in the end of the Howard era, he is a home-grown hero above all others...
...from different backgrounds, Onie's cohorts all proudly call themselves punks - a name first coined 30 years ago. His gang must be one of the last anywhere in the world to use the term today, and stepping inside Movement Records is to walk into a shrine to another era. Posters and stickers of their heroes - bands from the 1970s such as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Clash - adorn every inch of wall space. "Punk is about freedom," says Onie. "People can choose what they want to do and what they want...
Cultural decline is a more difficult failing to assess - and address. Traditionally a province of the right, it speaks to the nostalgia of some French for the more rigorous, hierarchical society of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paradoxically, that starchy era inspired much of France's subsequent cultural vitality. "A lot of French artists were created in opposition to the education system," says Christophe Boïcos, a Paris art lecturer and gallery owner. "Romantics, Impressionists, Modernists - they were rebels against the academic standards of their day. But those standards were quite high and contributed to the impressive quality...
...essential fuel of modern capitalism, which will founder without it. A more hopeful take is that innovation is the essential fuel of modern capitalism and that high oil prices will drive rapid advances in conservation and alternative energy. Either way, the beginning of the end of the oil era may be upon us, well ahead of schedule...