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...free exchange of ideas has become another innocent victim in the Bush administration’s reckless and shameless drive to the election. In order to appease a narrow but influential group of voters in Florida, the State Department put politics ahead of academic freedom. Showing utter disregard for the interest of American citizens, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher last week justified an act of political censorship with the revealing decree that “Engagement and dialogue is not an end in itself...
...mail invitations from the national campaign's field operation and had come from all over the county to help. Although Linehan admits that the Democrats are still outgunned by the Republicans in a county that Bush won handily in 2000, he says he believes the Kerry insurgents can narrow the gap to the point where Kerry's advantage in other parts of the state will enable him to carry Ohio. "I'm telling you we're going to win this state," Linehan says. "We have received more requests for signs than ever before. We've had more volunteers. The ranks...
...feature films, the director is God,” Alfred Hitchcock once quipped. “In documentary films, God is the director.” By this relatively narrow definition, the contemporary political non-fiction films that have been labeled documentaries are really more akin to feature films—Moore’s recitation from his commandeered ice cream truck, after all, easily qualifies as directorial lording...
Kristol criticized Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., contrasting the “broad conclusions” President Bush drew from the terrorist attacks with the “narrow conclusions” of Kerry, who has emphasized the need to hunt Osama bin Laden himself rather than take on Middle Eastern states such as Iraq...
...that's not how we're wired. Trapped as we are in the one-way flow of time, not predicting the future would be like driving a car without bothering to glance through the windshield from time to time. We desperately need prophets, even false ones, to help us narrow the infinity of plausible futures down to one or at least to a manageable handful. We look at the present and see the present; they see the seeds of the future. They are our advance scouts, infiltrating the undiscovered country, stealing over the border to bring back priceless reconnaissance maps...