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...contributed your own essay on heartbreak for the book. Have you talked to the girl who dumped you about...
...remains strongly—even disappointingly—anchored in American soil. The second chapter, “Impossible Architectures,” features “The Dome,” an unmistakable dystopian portrayal of today’s consumerist society. In a narrative closely resembling historical essay, the story details the evolution of a large, transparent, protective dome, first over wealthy residences, then over middle-class suburbia, and finally over the entire country—a haunting extension of the shopping mall. “The Other Town” offers a wry commentary on the popularity...
...time of publication, this alone would have seen her charged with blasphemy in fundamentalist circles, but if ever the Koran's message of tolerance bears repeating, it is now. Bhutto's criticism of Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" theory is also pertinent. Huntington posited, in a 1993 essay in the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs, that conflict between Islam and the West was inevitable. Bhutto, drawing on the works of several authors, argues that Huntington's idea "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts ... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative...
While short, the chapter refuting Samuel Huntington's theory of the Clash of Civilizations is particularly pertinent. Huntington posited in a 1993 essay in Foreign Affairs that conflict between Islam and the West was inevitable. Bhutto, drawing on the works of several authors in a New York Review of Books-type essay fears Huntington's work "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." Instead, she says, the tension is within Islam itself. "The failure...
...Fighting the Fiscal Fix It's not often that I agree with michael Kinsley, but his Essay opposing a fiscal stimulus was a winner [Feb. 4]. For years we have overspent on oversize homes, flat-screen TVs and gas-guzzling SUVs, with little regard for our ability to pay for them. Now it's time for the people and the government to break the addiction. Kent Nash, HENDERSON...