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...though she was just a bystander, became the embodiment of the leading role Iranian women have played in the protests. Early mourners scoured the Web and appropriated the image of the wrong woman--another Neda, who, it turned out, was very much alive. When the world learned that her name meant voice in Farsi, she became a symbolic victim of oppression, silenced by a brutal regime. As each detail of her life emerged, it was given import and meaning. The government, which quickly declared the video a fabrication, has won back control of the streets, but it has no power...
Four years ago, when Queen Elizabeth II made Shonibare a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), his leftist friends expected him to turn the award down. Instead, he just about bolted the letters MBE to his name, but with a very broad wink. "I was always part of the empire," he says. "Now I've been officially incorporated...
...fields for decades, providing refreshments for the amateur athletes, but it wasn’t until the last few years that the mix of cornmeal and ground meat became destination dining. Food blogs hail the carts as some of the city’s best and the name “Red Hook Ball Fields” is now synonymous with street food delicacy. The carts have taken their place among New York’s ethnic cuisine elite—when the city threatened not to renew the vendors’ permit in 2007, dedicated eaters, including Senator Chuck...
...construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories. He even urges President Barack H. Obama to “remind Israelis that all their settlements are hostage to American goodwill.” Some have labeled Judt’s piece, perhaps appropriately, as anti-Zionist: yet another media big-name railing against the State of Israel. But given the tone Obama set in his Cairo Speech, Judt’s ideas, for better or for worse, are emblematic—if not the most accurate articulation—of this administration’s attitude toward Israel...
...beginning of his professional career, he made a name for himself as the wunderkind who reformed the ailing Ford Motor Co. At the end, he tried to rehabilitate his reputation, as a do-gooder striving to save the globe's poorer nations as head of the World Bank. But Robert McNamara, who died early Monday morning in his sleep at home at the age of 93 (his wife Diana told the Associated Press he had been in failing health for some time), will always be best known for his role as the architect of Washington's failed Vietnam policy...