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Wood’s criticism is different from most of this age, and that’s mostly a result of its intent. Rather than simply praising or condemning a novel, he wants to go further—to see what the novel says about us and life in general...
Iraqis have the right to control their own future free from the interference of foreign armies, governments and corporations intent on plundering the oil resources and people of Iraq for their own gain. The U.S. has already spent $80 billion on the war and Congress just approved another approximately $87 billion. And I can hazard a guess that Bush might have a harder time convincing the nine million unemployed Americans—or 12 million unemployed Iraqis—that those billions have been well-spent...
...rapidly improving international relations. Under communist rule, Chinese foreign policy had often been marked by suspicion and a certain belligerent petulance. But in the past few months, under Hu's leadership, Beijing has emerged as an increasingly sophisticated and mature player on the global stage, a power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Beijing's Tsinghua University, who advises the Chinese...
...Remember what Larry Summers says: If you rush AEPi and then turn down their bid, your actions are anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent...
...Hamas, JI and the al-Aksa Brigades, it was clear that localized cells - such as the Hamas operatives in Hebron and some of the Al-Aksa structures in the northern West Bank, which Israeli intelligence believes had been penetrated by elements from Hezbollah - retained the capability and the intent to violently veto agreements reached by their political leadership. The attack in Gaza may be a sign that at least some elements in the terror cells have taken up the banner of the Iraqi insurgency, or al-Qaeda or Hezbollah - or some combination. Washington's call for all U.S. personnel...