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...vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing more than another sin committed...
...Maverick philosopher and prolific writer Mortimer Adler, died last week in San Mateo, California. When his Great Books of the Western World was first published, TIME wrote a cover story on Adler, calling him "one of the best minds at large today." An excerpt...
...lessons that former NATO Commander General Wesley K. Clark presents in Waging Modern War are rather misleading [BOOK EXCERPT, June 4]. The truth is that the U.S.-led NATO operation in Kosovo was a violation of international law. Perhaps for Clark, modern war includes the inadvertent bombing of civilian targets, such as hospitals, trains and refugee convoys. I don't call this modern war; I call such actions war crimes. There are many places in the world where human rights are suppressed. The international community has selected to stay out of these crises and not to intervene...
...three lessons General Wesley Clark says he learned from his experience in Kosovo became policy, modern warfare would become more indiscriminate and ever more lethal [BOOK EXCERPT, June 4]. Clark's first lesson is to "move when a crisis is still ambiguous"--in other words, before any consensus emerges about the nature of the conflict. The second lesson: "Once you cross the threshold for the use of force, use it as decisively as possible." In other words, jump in with both feet and fire away! The third lesson, "continue to strike until the negotiations are successfully concluded," is an argument...
...Earth" (1976) (as a journalist, in the restored version), the documentaries "The Queen" (1968) (where he judges a drag contest) and "Burroughs" (1983), and the infamous Rolling Stones film-portrait "Cocksucker Blues" (1972). The last-mentioned has never been officially available (the Stones hate it - but tend to excerpt it in their authorized video compilations), but it offers the longest glimpse of Southern onscreen. Shaggy and stoned, he dallies with what appears to be a powder as he declares "Cocaine's so expensive that I don't think it's possible to develop a habit." The camera swerves away...