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...Prime Minister?unlike Koizumi, who made a campaign pledge to visit the shrine. For their part, the leaders in Beijing and Seoul seem ready to meet Abe halfway. "If Abe is in a strong position domestically, it wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't visit Yasukuni," says Malcolm Cook, an Asia director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney. "That gives you more space to push on other, more strategic points." If Abe loses popularity at home, however, he may instinctively fall back on a more abrasive nationalism. "He took a pretty strong stance on the North...
...Middle East conflict, Krauthammer explains that Hamas wants to recover any lands Muslims have conquered by force because those lands belong to them forever, in keeping with an Islamic precept. Are Americans really any different? Don't they want to keep forever those lands they took from the Indians? Malcolm Subhan Tervuren, Belgium Krauthammer invoked the wisdom of history by alluding to "the century-old Arab-Israeli dispute." The history lesson he conveniently omitted, however, is 15 centuries of anti-Semitism by Christian Europe, without which there might never have been an Arab-Israeli dispute. Europe needs to take more...
...Sikh father, Sher-Gil studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she absorbed influences from Gaugin to contemporary Hungarian art. At age 21, she settled in India, which had seen nothing like her. Most men who met her became infatuated; her numerous lovers included British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, and perhaps even Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian feminism, show a cheerful, exuberant woman, confident in her sexuality. Indian journalist Khushwant...
...guide to country music in cyberspace.”‘THE WIND DONE GONE’But Randall was catapulted into the spotlight for her parody of “Gone With The Wind,” a project she contemplated after learning that Malcolm X once said the movie ruined a whole summer of his.“As a black person in America, I always knew that a lot of black people hated ‘Gone With The Wind,’ and as a black child, I myself felt injured by the narrative...
...where his father ran the Hotel Theresa, which was frequented by celebrities. He earned a law degree at St. John's University, had a prominent career with the National Urban League and went on to become one of the great Washington insiders. Baldridge is probably best remembered for the Malcolm Baldridge award given to outstanding businesses or nonprofits, but he had a fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much of the world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch...