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...Jong Il’s hair depicted as a mushroom cloud) when the editors’ note itself states that this image was employed by at least four different artists. Breeden’s only crime is that in a select few of her pieces she went for an obvious gag, an offense quite common in editorial cartooning, worthy of a reprimand, at most, but certainly not a pink slip...
...sound unpopular, what we need is less freedom: We need a system like Columbia’s. The Columbia Core is a rigid requirement of ten arenas, concentrating portal courses in Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization, Frontiers of Science, Art Humanities, and even Physical Education. The rationale is obvious: There is a body of knowledge that each student must know before he or she can be fit to be called a graduate of Columbia. There are no exceptions or excuses. It is not freedom that is important, but enlightened freedom. The current Core proposal proclaims that such enlightenment will only...
...Golding was being deliberately provocative or just asinine in his comment “A Defense of Prejudice” (Nov. 2). Evidently, he subscribes to some bizarre theory of psychology according to which belonging to a religious group is equivalent to renouncing independent thought. It should be fairly obvious that some people consider themselves Muslims, Mormons, Jews, Catholics, etc., even though they may not agree with certain tenets of theology espoused by their coreligionists. At the same time, many religions (like Islam and Judaism) incorporate several different streams and lack central religious authorities, so it is not even clear...
Eggers and Deng worked on What Is the What for three years, recording 100 hours of interviews and visiting Sudan together. What could have been an awkward literary three-legged race became instead a synergistic collaboration. In person there's an obvious and rather touchingly empathic bond between the two: Eggers is the confident, gregarious one, while Deng speaks in quiet, melodious, not-quite-grammatical English. "Dave would listen to me," he says, "and he would write and send me a chapter, and I see him in me. And I ask him sometimes, 'How are you able to put yourself...
...rich Arab Muslim nations fund and smuggle tens of millions of dollars of explosives, weapons and missiles into Gaza yet somehow cannot fund or get food supplies and other civilian necessities into the area. The reason is obvious. "Oppressed, starving Palestinians" provide effective political fodder for Arab despots and Islamic fascists who care more about demonizing Israel than they care about improving the lives of their Arab brothers and sisters in Gaza...