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...publique française. Meanwhile, other Harvard friends kicked down inner doors at the National Opera and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although none of us was invited to dine with parliamentarians, sopranos, or immortals, we undoubtedly penetrated the façade, if not (yet) the innermost sanctuaries, of some of the elite cultural institutions that Paris boasts in such abundance. Armed only with our Veritas watermarks, we found that institutions conceived by long-buried French kings were delighted to have us around. Admittedly, Harvard-sponsored cultural tourism is not for everyone. Our letters were singularly unsuccessful in getting...
...past a warren of low buildings that houses two Iraqi army brigades called Camp Honor. The area ends at the northeasternmost edge along the Tigris River at the white columns of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the tree-lined streets around the Prime Minister?s residence. Only the innermost cordon of U.S. Embassy officies and sensitive military installations are guarded entirely by U.S. troops...
...denying the Holocaust. In France last year, the Roman Catholic Church got a judge to ban an advertisement modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper that depicted everyone but Judas as a woman; he ruled it was a "gratuitous and aggressive intrusion on people's innermost beliefs." France also denies students the right to show their religion, meaning Muslim schoolgirls can't wear head coverings - an act, you might say, of symbolic speech. This week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will try once again to get Parliament to ban "direct or indirect encouragement of terrorism," including its "glorification." That...
...What he did is wrong on so many levels, and I'm outraged by it," she fumes. "He lied. Writing a memoir, especially one like he was supposed to have done--or one like I did--is a very personal thing. You sit down, and you write about your innermost feelings and your experiences, and you share them with your readers. When it succeeds, it's a very intimate exchange. For him to have just so baldly lied is horrifying and disgusting and disgraceful...
...that’s the whole point! We’re experiencing art as snappily-dressed dilettantes, and we’ll make no bones about that! I think this should be a column in which we are brutally honest about our innermost feelings. It’s okay to cry just a little bit. It’s okay to laugh. It’s even better to snort...