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...good for them, others argue. They are misinformed, they are the product of Fox News, they have a terrible misreading of history. President Obama even intimated as much in his State of the Union, claiming that it was not his agenda but rather his failure to explain it to a misinformed populace that caused the congressional logjam...
...don’t think that science in and of itself shows that there’s no God and science can’t explain why there’s something rather than nothing, if that question makes sense. So one can hold both views and not be guilty of inconsistency I would...
...book trips to tourist destinations such as Dubai, Istanbul or Iranian towns on the shores of the Caspian Sea, perhaps to avoid the violence that accompanied religious festivities in December. A travel agent said flights to Dubai had been reserved for the holiday weeks in advance. That would help explain the relative silence of the opposition on what many had thought was going to a day of noisy, if not fiery, confrontation in Iran's capital...
Comebacks can be tough - even when you are famous enough to be known only by your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France's best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy - or BHL, as he is universally known - has been trying to explain how he was hoodwinked by a fictional character he had taken for a great thinker...
...Rules of the Game, which is owned by his book publisher, Grasset, he admitted that he had been completely duped by Botul. "He has tried to be smart and funny," says Assouline. "It's all nonsense. He was clearly annoyed." Meanwhile, Grasset has refused requests from journalists to explain how the error crept into the book...