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Working in a war zone can be draining, with places to alleviate the tension hard to find. In Kabul, NGO staff, journalists, and foreign development workers have long sought out L'Atmosphère Restaurant and Bar, latmospherekabul.blogs.com, for its convivial charms, excellent wine list (for Afghanistan) and comforting French meals - think dishes like beef fillet, smoked salmon and dill sauce or tuna steak and ratatouille followed by plates of cheese and fresh peaches in zabaglione...
...parts. With enough venture funding--by which I mean the volunteer services of a dude who knows how to build a website--I hope to launch TrueSocialStatus.com on which users are allowed to submit only their name, their occupation, a photo, the square footage of their home and a list of any celebrities they happen to know. Then other people can vote, on a scale of 1 to 100, on how awesome they are. At the end of the year, the ones with the most points are made homecoming king and queen, which, if I remember correctly, should immediately send...
...surprising that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn still regularly riles parents when it's taught in school; Mark Twain's 1884 classic is soaked with racial epithets. Some of the other books challenged or banned from classrooms or libraries in the past year are more unexpected. To see a list compiled with the help of the American Library Association, for early October's Banned Books Week, go to time.com/bannedbooks...
...think that his low-key style has served China well and that he has done his best to manage the fissures that a quarter-century of breakneck economic growth have torn in Chinese society. But far, far more needs to be done to deal with the country's daunting list of crises--a ravaged environment, rising inflation, rampant corruption and widespread social unrest...
...Defcon 2: Full-frontal attack. This is a significant escalation. Mitt Romney launched one against Rudy Giuliani in Iowa this past August: "If you look at lists compiled on Web sites of sanctuary cities [cities hospitable to illegal immigrants], New York is at the top of the list when Mayor Giuliani was mayor. He instructed city workers not to provide information to the federal government that would allow them to enforce the law. New York City was the poster child for sanctuary cities in the country." Not wanting to escalate the confrontation any more, the Giuliani campaign responded strongly, using...