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...that Hunter has already published two Swagger sequels. There are other conspiracies to uncover, or invent, other countries in need of a superhero. Readers and moviegoers need him too, as an imaginary solution to monstrously real problems. It's too bad that Swagger is a fiction, and that the notion of one man who can right wrongs is less plausible than the conspiracy fears that summoned him up as a solo world police force...
...Woolmer, who died only hours after his team lost to rank outsiders Ireland in a match that effectively eliminated Pakistan from the competition, had been working on a book that some Pakistani and Indian commentators have speculated would expose match-fixing within the team - a notion that Woolmer's co-author says is nonsense...
...most Europeans, national identity is still more important than any pan-European identity. That doesn't shock me; I myself am a French citizen first, and then a European. What shocks me is the notion that, by withdrawing into our own corners, we will resolve the great challenges of globalization and technological progress...
...that critics claim was loosely based on its New Testament portion (the Council denies a connection). Its spokespeople claim it is refining itself as it goes and its most recent edition, which came out last month, eliminates much literalist bias--but still devotes 18 lines to the blatantly unscientific notion that the earth is only 6,000 years...
...might remember that Europe, 50 years ago, did not pull itself back from the abyss on its own. Across the Atlantic was a nation with a pretty broad notion of neighbor. Sure, the Marshall Plan wasn't all altruism--the U.S. wanted a bulwark against Soviet expansion as the temperature of relations dropped below freezing. But it was also generosity on a scale never before seen in human history. It defined America in the cold...