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...were running Wal-Mart, there would be strippers in the aisles and strippers at the checkout line. In fact, it would just be a strip joint. But despite the fact that I have neither morals nor taste, I think Wal-Mart was right to pull the lad mags - Maxim, Stuff and FHM - from its shelves last week...
...moving show this month at P.S. 1, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate in Queens. Jue Chang--Fifty Strokes to Each, from 1998, is typical of Chen's mix of Chinese traditions and modern-art formats, in this case a massive installation work. The title refers to a Buddhist maxim--50 blows to both opponents in any conflict. That's supposed to be a way for them to acknowledge and then settle their differences. It's just days before the invasion of Iraq, so believe me, I'm drumming...
With a National Security Strategy based on the maxim, “The best defense is a good offense,” whether Iraq poses an imminent threat may as well be irrelevant to the Bush administration. Scary rhetoric about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and a far-fetched presentation by Secretary of State Colin Powell, including evidence debunked as fallacious by the CIA’s very own records, suffice to justify a war planned years before Sept. 11. Bush’s National Security Strategy, unveiled in Sept. 2000, incorporates policies long-endorsed by members...
...many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures of women, whether it's Maxim or Vogue; absolutely no alcohol...
...prospect of mounting instability in the Arab world, and even the issue of troop morale may work against the Bush Administration keeping such a large force assembled, but inactive, in the Gulf through punishing summer. Once the invasion force is assembled, it may call forth the Napoleonic-era maxim that "armies don't stand idle in the spring...