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...book, as its title suggests, tells the history of America’s relations with the Middle East from the nation??s birth to the War on Terror. Oren weaves the history together with three overlapping threads, which he argues are the factors that have most influenced America’s relations with the tumultuous region: power, particularly militaristic and political; faith, by which he means Christian evangelism, especially its relationship to Zionism; and fantasy, the depiction of the Middle East as a mystical, faraway land in popular culture from “Lawrence of Arabia?...
...poor little Pakis,” the salivating watchdogs at Media Matters bit, but most people didn’t blink. When the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was likened to “a weekend in Las Vegas” by radio personality Jay Severin, the nation??s courthouses and airwaves were silent; there were no fiery calls for contrition...
...case for next year’s USC basketball team. The Trojans recently received a commitment from teen-rap sensation Romeo (he dropped the Lil’ over a year ago), meaning that the son of hip-hop mogul Master P will be teamed up with the nation??s top incoming freshman—prep phenom O.J. Mayo—come the 2007-08 season...
...former Wis. Governor Tommy Thompson. While the representatives for Huckabee and Thompson touted their candidates’ credentials, Gingrich’s senior advisers peddled no such ambitions. Gingrich’s strategists said the former speaker of the House has not decided whether he will run for the nation??s top post. But while Gingrich’s entry into the race is seen as unlikely, members of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) have already formed a “Students for Newt” group, according to HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09. With...
...Tennessee Monkey Trial,” adapted from the original transcripts of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, a science teacher charged with teaching evolution in the classroom. The trial was the first of its kind to be sensationalized in the media through the radio, and it was the nation??s first widespread debate on the teaching of evolution in public schools. The show took no explicit stance on the issue, but provided insight into the changing state of science education in America throughout the century. Headlining the show was television personality and activist Ed Asner, well-known...