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...relationship issues and dinner conversations. Of course, innumerable thinkers over many centuries haven’t definitively solved the problem of evil, and Goldstein isn’t going to do it over dessert, but she does succeed in accessibly introducing a classic conundrum to her audience in the flow of her storytelling. So long as readers recognize that the positions debated in “36 Arguments for the Existence of God” are only the beginning of the conversation and not the end, Goldstein has accomplished her task. The job of the philosophical novelist...
Crackdowns, say many experts, usually serve to radicalize the local population, further stimulating the flow of money and new recruits to terrorist groups. But the popular calls for revenge after the subway bombings left the government with few other choices. Even the champion of a softer approach, President Dmitri Medvedev, pledged to get "more cruel" against the terrorists on April 1. On Tuesday, the state-run polling agency VTsIOM reported that 75% of Russians say they believe terrorism can only be defeated by force, up from 70% in 2002. There are no public debates in Russia about how to treat...
...alliance with Iran and militant groups such as Hizballah and Hamas. Until recently, Syria seemed to be one of the few areas in the Middle East where Washington's diplomatic overtures appeared to be paying off. U.S. military officials in Baghdad have cited improved Syrian efforts at controlling the flow of jihadists over the Syrian border into Iraq as contributing to the reduction of violence there since 2007. More recently, American diplomats acknowledged that Syria has been playing a more constructive role in Lebanon, which Syria occupied until 2005, in part by finally recognizing Lebanon's national sovereignty and opening...
...best directors are willing to evolve, and go with the flow; you have to be organic about it and White was very accommodating...
...debate over current events. China now has an estimated 384 million Internet users, more than the total population of the U.S. That size, combined with the growing popularity of interactive applications that allow users to generate their own content, has placed great strain on censors' ability to restrict the flow of sensitive information. Often news happens and discussion spreads widely before censors have a chance to decide how to manage the subject. "In this war, the censor is obviously not winning," says Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley. "In the interactive...