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...concrete understanding, onto which contemporary social anxieties (and dreams) can readily be projected. As a result we find (often polarized) utopian and dystopian visions being articulated." Humanity will certainly survive the LHC's experiment, Williams added, but so too will its darkest fears about its own destructive potential, and hope for its future...
...play into the Russians' hands. Two years ago, when Israel invaded Lebanon and killed hundreds of innocent civilians, our Administration cheered the onslaught. How can we criticize their aggression and belligerence when the U.S. under Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney acted similarly with respect to Iraq? I do hope Barack Obama and John McCain follow Brzezinski's advice, and I hope NATO and the rest of the international community can persuade Russia to leave Georgian territory or make the political and economic consequences as painful as possible. Andy Paquet, Uniontown, Ohio...
...Soviet nations, together with a more buoyant Russian economy and strong political support for President Vladimir Putin, makes easier for Russia to further its aim of enhancing its international standing by whatever means necessary. For these reasons, something like the invasion of Georgia was inevitable. Let us now hope that history does not repeat itself. Relations between Russia and the West have always been based on mutual fear rather than cooperation. It seems that this is not going to change. Ignacio O'Dogherty, Madrid...
Moontide and Road House, both starring Ida Lupino; Fox Film Noir series; out now The B-movie Bette Davis, Ida Lupino could play waifs or wantons, but she always gave her characters the wit and glamour required to wrestle with their fates. In Moontide (1942), she's the last hope for French icon Jean Gabin; in Road House (1948), she's the torch singer hired by punk Richard Widmark: two solid noirs starring one classy dame...
...nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life--that the fact that Charlie likes grabbing dinner at a local hamburger stand might be more important than his views on Islam. One can easily imagine, or perhaps hope, that Laura Bush might worry about that...