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...accept pre-emptive war as just, and a confidant recalls him shaking his fists and shouting "Basta!"--Enough!--back in the early days of the Iraq war. He may be trying to model a clash of civilizations without bloodshed. As Roberto Fontolan, the Vatican-savvy spokesman of the lay group Communion and Liberation, puts it, "Let's not talk about dogma. Or whether my God is better than your God. Let's talk about reason that we both have as a gift from God. What does it tell...
...this Gaian vision is worse than a fanciful environmentalist dream; it is also a way to lay blame in the lap of others. Unsurprisingly, Jensen’s favorite bête noire is “the corporations.” In his world, corporations aren’t just hapless profit-making machines linked up to an established social structure; they stand in for Satan’s armies committed to evil for evil’s sake. He talks convincingly of the futility of acting through government, but ruins the point with an unremitting focus on the extremes...
...think they’ve been asking for it for a long time, being all high-minded about nature and the world,” said Christopher R. Schleicher ’09, co-president of the Lampoon. National Geographic designers helped the ’Poonsters lay out the issue and will be distributing 210,000 copies “strategically around the country” along with the real magazine, according to Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Hayes H. Davenport ’08-’09, who edited the spoof. The parody features...
...happy mayhem.” New Orleans is a nocturnal city, and in the bright sunshine the carnival-like setting gave way to pressing heat and gridlocked traffic. A month after Mardi Gras, glistening strands of gold, green, and purple beads still dangled from trees and telephone wires, and lay broken in the streets. Middle-aged men nursed their drinks in quiet bars, and shop owners idled in empty gallerias waiting for customers. Somebody may have been sitting in City Hall, but inertia governed. In this atmosphere, action was—and continues to be—slow in coming...
...mystery why. This week, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and his new government started to lay the ground rules for future dialogue with the North. "North Korea is just trying to discipline the new unification minister [of South Korea]," says Professor Moon Jung In, at Yonsei University, referring to Kim Ha Jong, the South's key policy maker on the North. His agenda will presumably be a reflection of Lee's election platform, which took a harder line against Pyongyang than previous South Korean governments...