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...course, the most romantic flowering of the spirit America went into the region to foster: the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, in which unarmed civilians, Christian and Muslim alike, brought down the puppet government installed by Syria. There is even the beginning of a breeze in Damascus. More than 140 Syrian intellectuals have signed a public statement defying their government by opposing its occupation of Lebanon...
...suffering, we Americans realized after 9/11 that we had better start addressing the problems of the Middle East. In response to 9/11, the U.S. government went after individuals in Afghanistan and Iraq who were connected to terrorist activity. The result has been to bring insurgents to justice and to foster the emergence of two fledgling democracies. The free elections in those countries will perhaps inspire others to follow, thus spreading democracy and making the world a safer place for us all. Len Murtha Glen Allen, Virginia, U.S. The Iraqi elections were a triumph. Having reservations about this milestone and what...
...Murakamis (Haruki and Ryu), as well as the netherworlds of anime and manga - though her characters are hardly cartoons. Sato, who retains his dignity through crippling setbacks, could have stepped from the delicate pages of Kazuo Ishiguro or Jane Austen. Watanabe, resourceful despite his youthful delusions, would interest David Foster Wallace or Nick Hornby. Only Mary, fluent in Japanese but blind to the signals and intrigues of nearly everyone around her, can't seem to get a grip. Of course, in that failing she is no worse than all those other Westerners who imagine they know Japan...
...point of these debates is to open up free dialogue, and provide a forum to foster political debate,” he said. “We want to get people to talk, and to broaden their mindsets...
...Faculty Club, with a seated capacity of 150, is the largest space we could find that is within our means and appropriate for a panel discussion and reception to foster continued discourse,” Kim wrote in an e-mail...