Word: karle
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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...
When the Olympics begin this August, the Americans will field Dream Team No. 3, a cast of B-minus professionals. Kobe’s out. Kevin Garnett is expected to turn down the Olympics invitation. Karl Malone wants out, and Shaq is non-committal. Vince Carter has said no, the New Jersey Nets tandem of Kenyon Martin and Jason Kidd both want to rest injuries, and Ray Allen is staying home because his first child is due in September. Jermaine O’Neal’s status is in doubt, Tracy McGrady and Mike Bibby have both expressed hesitance...
...didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives-doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets...
...charts, Fidel was the enemy and the Cold War was getting uncomfortably hot in Vietnam and elsewhere. Ten years later, Stills controversially followed through on the message behind those seemingly carefree words he’d once sung—he rocked Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre in a historic Cuban-American music festival...
...grafted significant amounts of consumer data onto their public-records databases, hoping to discover veins of unmined gold. Increasingly, politics and the personal-data industry are in cahoots. General Wesley Clark, the former presidential candidate and former Acxiom board member, opened doors in Washington for the data giant. And Karl Rove, George W. Bush's top political strategist, worked in the direct-marketing industry before he entered the political arena...