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...evolving into liberal democracies with capitalist economies, a countercurrent of opposition accused the newly emerging "modern" world of being devoid of spirituality. In the arts, Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Blake charged that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist...
...KERRY'S TEAM: The candidate maintains a tight inner circle, but just who is his Karl Rove...
...entrench the sense of alienation and anger that is already being stoked for political ends. The members of the religious right have therefore achieved what they set out to achieve. They have used this issue to galvanize parts of the evangelical base, just as President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, intended. They have identified Republican Senators who defied them and will do all they can to get rid of them in future primaries. And in states like Florida and South Dakota, they think they have a chance to use the issue to tilt a few Senate races this fall...
More than one political movie is turning up the Fahrenheit this election season. Among the documentaries, Bush's Brain builds a brief against adviser Karl Rove; Uncovered: The War on Iraq deconstructs the war's rationale; The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Bill Clinton confidant Harry Thomason, assails what it calls a long-term right-wing campaign to destroy Clinton; Control Room looks at Iraq as seen by Arab news channel al-Jazeera. Meanwhile, John Sayles' fictional Silver City gives us Chris Cooper playing a corrupt--and familiarly fumble-mouthed--gubernatorial candidate...
...lead to a decline in budget revenue - on the contrary." It certainly caught Austria's attention. In 2005, its corporate-tax rate will drop from 34% to 25%. "When corporate income tax is 16% in Hungary [and] 19% in Slovakia ... then Austria had to do something," said Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser. The country's Socialists and Greens have criticized the decision for burdening pensioners and favoring corporations over small businesses, but the private sector cheered - and inquiries from foreign companies about setting up in Austria skyrocketed. Perhaps that's what has Schröder so worried. Suzanne Rosselet...