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...inability to write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative, I no longer felt myself guided by a director...
...Washington Don't F ___ With the FCC In a setback for potty-mouthed celebs, the Supreme Court ruled on April 28 that the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) can fine networks for "fleeting expletives" that appear during live broadcasts. The case, FCC v. Fox Television Stations, arose from awards shows in which Bono, Cher and Nicole Richie uttered passing profanities. The question of whether such fines violate First Amendment rights, however, was left to a lower circuit court...
...gene pool is a swell idea. Generations of doctors bought into Freud's theories of mental illness. Eminent military historian John Keegan traces the catastrophic stupidity of World War I to the fact that European nations began training their smartest officers to make strategic plans. Eventually, they made such fine, lean plans that, like concentrated ozone, they exploded on contact...
...pundit, said on Fox News Sunday. "Let's have Dick Cheney debate anyone the left wants to produce about whether we were responsible, about whether this was a dark chapter in our history, something that we should be ashamed of or whether the U.S. government behaved in a very fine way, I think, in a very impressive...
...reprimanded Ahmadinejad for that outburst. So it came as a surprise Sunday when Ahmadinejad told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, in effect, that the Islamic republic would recognize the state of Israel - if the Palestinians signed a two-state peace deal with Israel. "Whatever decision they take," Ahmadinejad said, "is fine with...