Word: note
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...always wanted to tell someone: I’ve had stitches 18 different times, but I’ve never broken a bone. Favorite childhood toy: My dreidel. I made it out of clay. Describe yourself in three words: I’m Aquaman [Editor’s Note: That’s two words...
Kennedy does note that international law has its importance in determining what constitutes a just war, but he makes a convincing case that the law’s “humanitarian potential”—its ability to prompt humanitarian interventions in places like Bosnia and Darfur—is overstated. The solution, Kennedy argues, is to ground just war doctrine in ethics...
With The Lay of the Land (Knopf; 485 pages), Bascombe is 55 and still a Realtor in a booming market, but a brittle, somewhat sour note has crept into his thinking. It's Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with...
...would feel they have no choice but to follow. Forget about eradicating poverty, all efforts will go into acquiring nuclear technology." In a private memo he wrote on May 1, which was reported in a Bob Woodward article in the Washington Post on Oct. 8, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld noted that at least two Middle Eastern states--which he did not name--have been thinking about developing nuclear weapons. In all likelihood, he was referring to Egypt--which has a civilian nuclear program for its energy needs--and Saudi Arabia. The leaders in the Arab world have made due note...
...power of Bernstein’s music and left the audience stunned.The intensity continued as able conductor Judith Clurman led the Chorus through selections from the “Chichester Psalms.” These diverse pieces featured young William Patrick Endicott as a boy soloist, adding pristine notes to the chilling harmony of the Chorus. The psalms went from peaceful to fierce, demonstrating Bernstein’s versatility and incredible classical foundations.After the intermission Cabell returned to sing the five-song cycle “I Hate Music,” sung from the perspective of a ten-year...