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...many ways akin to a marriage, its success depending on what each person brings to the mix, in the compatibility or lack thereof between author and subject. Not since Bob Woodward's misbegotten attempt to tell the story of John Belushi in Wired has a biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after all, what...
...short life, the Bush administration has had a dubious record on environmental and energy issues. Whether it was the ill-conceived drilling proposal that would have spoiled millions of acres of protected land in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve or the secret meetings with energy executives that led to a selfish policy to benefit oil and chemical company cronies at the expense of the environment, it is farcical for Bush to claim any high ground in the debate to protect America’s environmental future. But ironically, that is just what the president tried to do on Earth...
Events beyond Cambridge have also fallen prey to ill-advised race-based interpretations. On these pages, Harvard Law School student Faisal Chaudhry cast the war in Israel and the West Bank in racial terms, saying Israeli racism was one cause of the continuing conflict. On its face, this explanation might seem reasonable; the war is certainly between Israel—a Jewish state—and the Arab Palestinians. But the real reason for Israel’s actions is the brutal campaign of Palestinian suicide bombings that have jeopardized Israel’s security...
...amazed at the hypocrisy of the American approach to terrorists [WORLD, April 15]. Would President Bush have negotiated with the enemy for the custody of Osama bin Laden or other al-Qaeda fighters? No. Then why does Bush expect Israel to negotiate with Yasser Arafat? SANDEEP SHOUCHE Westmont, Ill...
ELVIS COSTELLO • When I Was Cruel (Island) Elvis Costello, lost for the last decade or more in a quagmire of overwrought pretensions and ill-suited collaborations has finally returned to form—and how. When I Was Cruel is the true successor to such Costello classics as This Years Model and Armed Forces. “45,” the first track, could have been an outtake from the latter. Candy-coated organs and big drums abound on this record alongside the trademark rhythmic tics for which Costello is so highly regarded. Never has neurosis...