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...wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. I do not want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made on the dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and then just waited...
...simply, a glorified toy. The Mac appeals to the technologically illiterate and the aesthetes who value form over function. Apple’s design is admittedly quite good, but pretty colors cannot make up for the total lack of computing power...
...Guiliani said that he wasn’t sure about the procedure in a town hall meeting last Wednesday, and accused the “liberal media” of drumming up opposition to the technique. We’d like to clarify things for them. Waterboarding is a form of torture that involves tipping a person back, placing a cloth in his or her mouth, and then repeatedly pouring water into the cloth to simulate the feeling of drowning. While campaigning politicians and potential cabinet secretaries may wish to muddy the water with contrived scenarios and ambiguous legalese...
...meet other libertarian college students and spend six weeks in an internship at the Cato Institute. The force behind the majority of these libertarian contacts and grants is the Institute for Humane Studies. The Institute prides itself on promoting policies aimed at liberty—typically in the form of libertarianism among college and graduate students. This aid materializes in the form of internships, summer seminars, and annual donations of around half of a million dollars in scholarships for students doing academic work on “liberty” (such as Harris, who was one of the only undergraduates...
...State Department may have offered some form of legal immunity to Blackwater contractors targeted in an investigation into the Sept. 16 shootings that killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. The discovery comes at a time when the Department is already under fire for not providing proper oversight for the security contractors protecting its diplomats in Iraq. In response, a congressional committee is now raising troubling questions about a pattern of State Department mismanagement...