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...BERNARD-HENRI LEVY No. Because it was the wrong target: Iran and Pakistan are infinitely more threatening. Because it was the wrong approach: the neoconservatives, who put no stock in government policy at home and thus can't do so abroad, produced no plans for democratic nation building. And, above all, because this war, which aimed to reduce the number and strength of terrorists, has instead increased them. What was needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," à la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short...
Before getting to the things that Bernard-Henri Lévy does well in American Vertigo, his entertaining and insightful account of how, last year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville - the aristocratic French author renowned for his perceptive and enduring classic, Democracy in America - the U.S. monthly magazine Atlantic commissioned Lévy, who is perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single...
...capital when they felt his presidency was being threatened. "Business as usual," was how the new street protests were described by lawyer Carol Chalmers, a close associate of presidential hopeful Leslie Manigat, who is running a distant second to Preval at just under 12 percent. Another presidential candidate, Charles Henri Baker, echoed the same war cry, and vowed to do whatever was necessary to make sure that "that fool" Preval did not win in a second round. Thus the continuation of the opposing political agendas that have haunted this country since it became the first independent black nation...
...level of polarization afflicting Haiti today makes national reconciliation a tall order. Some presidential candidates have already made it clear that should Pr?val win, they will not support him. Most aggressive is businessman Charles Henri Baker, running second in the opinion polls. Pointing to his rival's 1996-2001 tenure, he said, "Nothing positive was done for the country under his leadership. I will watch him closely. If things go the democratic way, great, but if he is back to his own ways, we're the opposition." Another leading contender, 75-year-old political science professor Leslie Manigat, says Haiti...
Perhaps it’s fitting that Peter L. Galison, who was until recently the Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, could only be reached via e-mail over intersession from a locale that was once home to historically-significant physicists such as Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie: Paris...