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...world-famous NYC turntablist quartet X-Ecutioners returns to the public consciousness with a bang. Easily the most eagerly anticipated album of its ilk in years, Built From Scratch makes an ambitious attempt to bring the hip-hop DJ, long eclipsed by egocentric emcees, back to the spotlight...
...that required a strong Federal Government--the authority of the American political process has been in a long decline. At the same time, the reputation of U.S. business leaders has grown extraordinarily. In the 1980s and '90s, Lee Iaccoca, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Jack Welch and their ilk became our new heroes. Businessmen seemed to combine a buccaneer's spirit with a slide-rule mind. "Washington" (the word had to be said with a sneer) was, by comparison with the worlds of our titans, disorganized and inefficient, quite hopeless...
...Middle East and elsewhere is long and difficult. But that road, albeit the one less traveled by, is the only one worth taking. Violence begets only violence, as Arafat should have learned by now. Such gunboat diplomacy is a sad relic of the past; Arafat and his ilk should not be allowed to impose it on the future...
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...radical Islam, or radical Christianity for that matter. The memes that inhabited the brains of the hijackers happened to ensure the destruction of their host, but if they are virulent enough to spread to the brains of others prepared by their local conditions to provide good homes to their ilk, this is no matter threatening their survival. Like viral particles of HIV that infect 20 others for every host they happen to kill, the suicidal terrorist meme is likely spreading in the face of these wanton acts of destruction...